Isaías 64:9

9 Não te agastes tanto, ó Senhor, nem perpetuamente te lembres da iniqüidade; olha, pois, nós te pedimos, todos nós somos o teu povo.

Isaías 64:9 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 64:9

Be not wroth very sore, O Lord
They knew not how to deprecate the displeasure of God entirely; having sinned so greatly against him, they were sensible they deserved his wrath; but entreat it might not be hot and very vehement, and carried to the highest pitch, which would be intolerable: neither remember iniquity for ever;
to afflict and punish for it, but forgive it, for not to remember sin is to forgive it; and not inflict the deserved punishment of it, but take off and remove the effects of divine displeasure, which as yet continued, and had a long time, as this petition suggests; and therefore suits better with the present long captivity of the Jews than their seventy years' captivity in Babylon. Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people;
look upon all our troubles and distresses, and upon us under them, with an eye of pity and compassion; and consider that we are thy people, not only by creation, but by covenant and profession; even everyone of us; or we are all the people thou hast, the Jews looking upon themselves to be the special and peculiar people of God, and the Gentiles as having no claim to such a relation; this is the pure spirit of Judaism. The Targum is,

``lo, it is manifest before thee that we are all of us thy people.''

Isaías 64:9 In-Context

7 E não há quem invoque o teu nome, que desperte, e te detenha; pois escondeste de nós o teu rosto e nos consumiste, por causa das nossas iniqüidades.

8 Mas agora, ó Senhor, tu és nosso Pai; nós somos o barro, e tu o nosso oleiro; e todos nós obra das tuas mãos.

9 Não te agastes tanto, ó Senhor, nem perpetuamente te lembres da iniqüidade; olha, pois, nós te pedimos, todos nós somos o teu povo.

10 As tuas santas cidades se tornaram em deserto, Sião está feita um ermo, Jerusalém uma desolação.

11 A nossa santa e gloriosa casa, em que te louvavam nossos pais, foi queimada a fogo; e todos os nossos lugares aprazíveis se tornaram em ruínas.