Isaiah 64:10
The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burnt with fire: and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
In Context
9The city of thy holiness has become desolate, Sion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 23:5and four thousand door-keepers, and four thousand to praise the Lord with instruments which he made to praise the Lord.
Psalms 79:1For the + 79:1 See Ps. 44, and 68, titles.end, for alternate strains, a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian.
Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations.
Jeremiah 52:13and he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house; and all the houses of the city, and every great house he burnt with fire.
Lamentations 1:7Zain. Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, and her rejection; she thought on all her desirable things which were from the days of old, when her people fell into the hands of the oppressor, and there was none to help her: when her enemies saw it they laughed at her habitation.
Lamentations 2:4Daleth. He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: he has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion: he has poured forth his anger as fire.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 64:7-12
Humble Confession. ( b. c. 706.) 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, O Lord , thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. 9 Be not wroth very… Read the whole commentary →