Isaiah 64:6-12

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6 ¹We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. ²We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

7 ³There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in^[a] the hand of our iniquities.

8 ⁴But now, O Lord, you are our Father; ⁵we are the clay, and you are our potter; ⁶we are all the work of your hand.

9 ⁷Be not so terribly angry, O Lord, ⁸and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people.

10 ⁹Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

11 ¹⁰Our holy and beautiful^[b] house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

12 ¹¹Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord? Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?

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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

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Cross References 11

1. 64:6 See ch. 59:12-15
2. 64:6 Ps. 90:5, 6
3. 64:7 ch. 43:22; Hos. 7:7
4. 64:8 ch. 63:16
5. 64:8 ch. 45:9; Rom. 9:20, 21
6. 64:8 ch. 29:23; 45:11
7. 64:9 [ch. 57:16; Ps. 74:1, 2]
8. 64:9 Ps. 79:8
9. 64:10 Neh. 1:3; 2:3
10. 64:11 Hag. 1:9; 2:3; [2 Kgs. 25:9; 2 Chr. 36:19; Ps. 74:7]
11. 64:12 ch. 42:14; [Zech. 1:12]

Footnotes 2

[a] 64:7 Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum 'have delivered us into'
[b] 64:11 Or 'holy and glorious'