Isaiah 63:19
We are become as they over whom Thou never borest rule, as they that were not called by Thy name.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 they have well nigh driven out, our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.
Cross References
Judges 5:4LORD, when Thou didst go forth out of Seir, when Thou didst march 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 know Thee not, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon Thy name.
Isaiah 65:1I gave access to them that asked not for Me, I was at hand to them that sought Me not; I said: 'Behold Me, behold Me', unto a nation that was not called by My name.
Jeremiah 14:9Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet Thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and Thy name is called upon us; leave us not.
Daniel 9:19O Lord, hear, O Lord, forgive, O Lord, attend and do, defer not; for Thine own sake, O my God, because Thy name is called upon Thy city and 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 →