Isaiah 64:6-12

6 All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

7 No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and have given us over to^[a] our sins.

8 Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

9 Do not be angry beyond measure, LORD; do not remember our sins forever. Oh, look on us, we pray, for we are all your people.

10 Your sacred cities have become a wasteland; even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.

11 Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.

12 After all this, LORD, will you hold yourself back? Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?

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Isaiah 64:6-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 64

The prayer of the church is continued in this chapter; in which she prays for some visible display of the power and presence of God, as in times past, Isa 64:1-3, and the rather, since unheard of and unseen things were prepared by the Lord for his people; and it was his usual way to meet those that were truly religious, Isa 64:4,5, and she acknowledges her sins and transgressions; the imperfections of her own righteousness, and remissness in duty, Isa 64:5-7, pleads relation to God, and implores his mercy, Isa 64:8,9, represents the desolate condition of Judea, Zion, Jerusalem, and the temple, and entreats divine commiseration, Isa 64:10-12.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 20

1. S Leviticus 5:2; S Leviticus 12:2
2. Isaiah 46:12; Isaiah 48:1
3. S Psalms 1:3; Psalms 90:5-6
4. Psalms 1:4; Jeremiah 4:12
5. S Isaiah 41:28; Isaiah 59:4; Isaiah 63:5; Jeremiah 8:6; Ezekiel 22:30
6. S Psalms 14:4
7. Deuteronomy 31:18; Isaiah 1:15; Isaiah 54:8
8. S Isaiah 9:18; Ezekiel 22:18-22
9. S Exodus 4:22; S Jeremiah 3:4; Isaiah 63:16
10. S Isaiah 29:16; Romans 9:20-21
11. S Job 10:3; S Isaiah 19:25
12. Isaiah 54:8; Isaiah 57:17; Isaiah 60:10; Lamentations 5:22
13. S Isaiah 43:25
14. S Psalms 100:3; S Isaiah 51:4
15. Psalms 78:54; S Isaiah 1:26
16. S Deuteronomy 29:23
17. S Leviticus 26:31; S 2 Kings 25:9; Psalms 74:3-7; Lamentations 2:7
18. ver 10-11; Lamentations 1:7,10
19. S Genesis 43:31; Psalms 74:10-11; Isaiah 42:14
20. S Esther 4:14; S Psalms 50:21; S Psalms 83:1

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[a]. Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew "have made us melt because of"

Isaiah 64:6-12

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Isaiah 64:6-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 64

Cross References 20

Footnotes 1