Ésaïe 64:9

9 Ne te courrouce pas entièrement, ô Éternel, et ne te souviens pas à toujours de l'iniquité! Voici, regarde: nous sommes tous ton peuple!

Ésaïe 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.''

Ésaïe 64:9 In-Context

7 Et il n'y a personne qui invoque ton nom, qui se réveille pour s'attacher à toi! Car tu nous as caché ta face, et tu nous as fait fondre par l'effet de nos iniquités.

8 Mais maintenant, Éternel, tu es notre père! Nous sommes l'argile, et tu es celui qui nous a formés, et nous sommes tous l'ouvrage de tes mains.

9 Ne te courrouce pas entièrement, ô Éternel, et ne te souviens pas à toujours de l'iniquité! Voici, regarde: nous sommes tous ton peuple!

10 Tes villes saintes sont devenues un désert; Sion est devenue un désert; Jérusalem, une désolation.

11 La maison de notre sanctuaire et de notre gloire, où nos pères t'ont loué, a été consumée par le feu; tout ce qui nous était cher a été dévasté.