Isaiah 63:19
We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, and when we were not called by thy name.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
In Context
18They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Cross References
Judges 5:4O Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, and passedst by the regions of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped water.
2 Samuel 22:10He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Psalms 79:6Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
Isaiah 65:1They have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found me that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did not call upon my name.
Jeremiah 14:9Why wilt thou be as a wandering man, as a mighty man that cannot save? but thou, O Lord, art among us, and thy name is called upon by us, forsake us not.
Daniel 9:19O Lord, hear: O Lord, be appeased: hearken and do: delay not for thy own sake, O my God: because thy name is invocated upon thy city, and upon thy people.
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 →