Isaiah 64:1-5

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1 ¹Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, ²that the mountains might quake at your presence—

2 ^[a] as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— ³to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!

3 ⁴When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

4 ⁵From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, ⁶no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.

5 You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved? ^[b]

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Isaiah 64:1-5 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

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Cross References 6

1. 64:1 [2 Sam. 22:10; Ps. 18:9; 144:5]
2. 64:1 Judg. 5:5; Mic. 1:4
3. 64:2 [Josh. 2:9, 10]
4. 64:3 [Ex. 14:13; 15:11]
5. 64:4 [Ps. 31:19]
6. 64:4 [1 Cor. 2:9]

Footnotes 2

[a] 64:2 Ch 64:1 in Hebrew
[b] 64:5 Or 'in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved'