Isaiah 63:19
We have become as those over whom thou never bore rule, as those who were not called by thy name.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
In Context
18Thy holy people possessed [it] but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Cross References
Judges 5:4LORD, when thou went forth out of Seir, when thou marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water.
2 Samuel 22:10He bowed the heavens also, and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet.
Psalms 79:6Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that do not know thee, and upon the kingdoms that do not call upon thy name.
Isaiah 65:1I was manifested (LXX/NT) by those who did not ask for me (LXX/NT). I am found by those who did not seek me. I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation that was not called by my name.
Jeremiah 14:9Why should thou be as a man frightened, as a mighty man who cannot save? Yet thou, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name. Do not leave us.
Daniel 9:19O LORD, hear. O LORD, forgive. O LORD, hearken and do. Defer not, for thine own sake, O my God, because thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 63:16-19
Earnest Pleadings. ( b. c. 706.) 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? 16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord , art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. 17 O Lord , why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for… Read the whole commentary →