Isaiah 64

1 Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!
2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!
3 For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.
4 Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
5 You come to the help of those who gladly do right, who remember your ways. But when we continued to sin against them, you were angry. How then can we be saved?
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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Cross References 31

  • 1. Psalms 18:9; Psalms 144:5
  • 2. ver 3; Micah 1:3
  • 3. S Exodus 19:18
  • 4. S Isaiah 30:27
  • 5. Psalms 99:1; Psalms 119:120; Jeremiah 5:22; Jeremiah 33:9
  • 6. S Psalms 65:5
  • 7. S Psalms 18:7
  • 8. S Isaiah 43:10-11
  • 9. S Isaiah 30:18; 1 Corinthians 2:9*
  • 10. S Isaiah 26:8
  • 11. S Isaiah 10:4
  • 12. S Leviticus 5:2; S Leviticus 12:2
  • 13. Isaiah 46:12; Isaiah 48:1
  • 14. S Psalms 1:3; Psalms 90:5-6
  • 15. Psalms 1:4; Jeremiah 4:12
  • 16. S Isaiah 41:28; Isaiah 59:4; Isaiah 63:5; Jeremiah 8:6; Ezekiel 22:30
  • 17. S Psalms 14:4
  • 18. Deuteronomy 31:18; Isaiah 1:15; Isaiah 54:8
  • 19. S Isaiah 9:18; Ezekiel 22:18-22
  • 20. S Exodus 4:22; S Jeremiah 3:4; Isaiah 63:16
  • 21. S Isaiah 29:16; Romans 9:20-21
  • 22. S Job 10:3; S Isaiah 19:25
  • 23. Isaiah 54:8; Isaiah 57:17; Isaiah 60:10; Lamentations 5:22
  • 24. S Isaiah 43:25
  • 25. S Psalms 100:3; S Isaiah 51:4
  • 26. Psalms 78:54; S Isaiah 1:26
  • 27. S Deuteronomy 29:23
  • 28. S Leviticus 26:31; S 2 Kings 25:9; Psalms 74:3-7; Lamentations 2:7
  • 29. ver 10-11; Lamentations 1:7,10
  • 30. S Genesis 43:31; Psalms 74:10-11; Isaiah 42:14
  • 31. S Esther 4:14; S Psalms 50:21; S Psalms 83:1

Footnotes 1

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

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