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Isaiah 65:4

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65:4They sit among the tombs8

and keep watch all night long.9

They eat pork,10

and broth11 from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.

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  1. 8 Perhaps the worship of underworld deities or dead spirits is in view.
  2. 9 The Hebrew text reads literally, “and in the watches they spend the night.” Some understand נְּצוּרִים (nétsurim) as referring to “secret places” or “caves,” while others emend the text to וּבֵין צוּרִים (uven tsurim, “between the rocky cliffs”).
  3. 10 Heb “the flesh of the pig”; , , “swine’s flesh.”
  4. 11 The marginal reading (Qere), supported by the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa, reads מְרַק (méraq, “broth”), while the consonantal text (Kethib) has פְרַק (feraq, “fragment”).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

who sit in tombs,

and spend the night in secret places;

who eat pig’s flesh,

and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;

NIVNew International Version (2011)

who sit among the graves

and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;

who eat the flesh of pigs,

and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;

CSBChristian Standard Bible

sitting among the graves,

spending nights in secret places,

eating the meat of pigs,

and putting polluted broth in their bowls.

NLTNew Living Translation

At night they go out among the graves,

worshiping the dead.

They eat the flesh of pigs

and make stews with other forbidden foods.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

who sit in graves

and spend the night in secret places,

who eat the flesh of swine

with a fragment of impurity in their vessels,

KJV 1900King James Version

Which remain among the graves,

And lodge in the monuments,

Which eat swine’s flesh,

And broth of abominable things is in their vessels;