Isaías 64:8

8 Mas ahora, oh SEÑOR, tú eres nuestro Padre, nosotros el barro, y tú nuestro alfarero; obra de tus manos somos todos nosotros.

Isaías 64:8 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O Lord, thou art our father
Notwithstanding all that we have done against thee, and thou hast done to us, the relation of a father continues; thou art our Father by creation and adoption; as he was in a particular manner to the Jews, to whom belonged the adoption; and therefore this relation is pleaded, that mercy might be shown them; and so the Targum,

``and thou, Lord, thy mercies towards us "are" many (or let them be many) as a father towards "his" children.''

We are the clay, and thou our potter:
respecting their original formation out of the dust of the earth; and so expressing humility in themselves, and yet ascribing greatness to God, who had curiously formed them, as the potter out of the clay forms vessels for various uses: it may respect their formation as a body politic and ecclesiastic, which arose from small beginnings, under the power and providence of God; see ( Deuteronomy 32:6 ) : and we all are the work of thy hand;
and therefore regard us, and destroy us not; as men do not usually destroy their own works: these relations to God, and circumstances in which they were as creatures, and as a body civil and ecclesiastic, are used as arguments for mercy and favour.

Isaías 64:8 In-Context

6 Todos nosotros somos como el inmundo, y como trapo de inmundicia todas nuestras obras justas; todos nos marchitamos como una hoja, y nuestras iniquidades, como el viento, nos arrastran.

7 Y no hay quien invoque tu nombre, quien se despierte para asirse de ti; porque has escondido tu rostro de nosotros y nos has entregado al poder de nuestras iniquidades.

8 Mas ahora, oh SEÑOR, tú eres nuestro Padre, nosotros el barro, y tú nuestro alfarero; obra de tus manos somos todos nosotros.

9 No te enojes en exceso, oh SEÑOR, ni para siempre te acuerdes de la iniquidad; he aquí, mira, te rogamos, todos nosotros somos tu pueblo.

10 Tus ciudades santas se han vuelto un desierto; Sion se ha convertido en un desierto, Jerusalén en una desolación.