Isaiah 65:3

A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;

A people that provoketh me to anger continually - answering to "all the day" (). God was continually inviting them, and they continually offending Him ().

To my face. They made no attempt to hide their sin (). Compare "before me," .

That sacrificeth in gardens - (note, ; ; .)

And burneth incense upon altars of brick - Hebrew, bricks. God had commanded His altars to be of unhewn stone (). This was in order to separate them, even in external respects, from idolaters; also, as all chiseling was forbidden, they could not inscribe superstitious symbols on them, as the pagan did. Bricks were more easily so inscribed than stone: hence, their use for the cuneiform inscriptions at Babylon, and also for idolatrous altars. Some, not so well, have supposed that the "bricks" here mean the flat brick-paved roofs of houses on which they sacrificed to the sun, etc. (; .)