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Isaiah 64:3-12
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When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
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From ages past no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who works for those who wait for him.
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You meet those who gladly do right, those who remember you in your ways. But you were angry, and we sinned; because you hid yourself we transgressed.
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We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
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There is no one who calls on your name, or attempts to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
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Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
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Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord, and do not remember iniquity forever. Now consider, we are all your people.
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Your holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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Our holy and beautiful house, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
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After all this, will you restrain yourself, O Lord? Will you keep silent, and punish us so severely?
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Isaiah 64:3-12 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
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.