Isaiah 64
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Isaiah 64
1 #
Judg 5.5; Ps 144.5 O that you would tear open the heavens and come down,
so that the mountains would quake at your presence—
2 #
Jer 5.22
# 64.2 64.1 in Heb as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
to make your name known to your adversaries,
so that the nations might tremble at your presence!
3 #
Ps 65.5; 66.3, 5; 106.22 When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect,
you came down; the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 #
Isa 40.31; 1 Cor 2.9 From ages past no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,
who works for those who wait for him.
5 #
Ex 20.24; Isa 56.1; 63.7, 10 You meet those who gladly do right,
those who remember you in your ways.
But you were angry, and we sinned;
because you hid yourself we transgressed.#64.5 Meaning of Heb uncertain
6 #
Ps 90.5, 6; Isa 6.5; 46.12; 50.1 We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 #
Isa 9.18; 27.5; 54.8; 59.4 There is no one who calls on your name
or attempts to take hold of you,
for you have hidden your face from us
and have delivered#64.7 Gk Syr OL Tg: Heb melted us into the hand of our iniquity.
8 #
Isa 29.16; 60.21; 63.16 Yet, O Lord, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.
9 #
Isa 43.25; 60.10; 63.8 Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord,
and do not remember iniquity forever.
Now consider, we are all your people.
10 #
Isa 6.11
Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 #
Ps 74.5–7; Isa 7.23; 63.18 Our holy and beautiful house,
where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
12 #
Ps 83.1; Isa 42.14 After all this, will you restrain yourself, O Lord?
Will you keep silent and punish us so severely?
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