Isaiah 63:19
We are become as though we are those over whom thou hast never ruled, over whom thy name hath not been called.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
In Context
18But a brief space were thy holy people in possession, when our adversaries trod down thy sanctuary.
Cross References
Judges 5:4Lord, at thy going forth out of Seir, at thy marching along out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, also the heavens dropped, also the clouds dropped water.
2 Samuel 22:10And he bent the heavens, and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet.
Psalms 79:6Pour out thy fury over the nations that acknowledge thee not, and over the kingdoms that have not called on thy name.
Isaiah 65:1I allowed myself to be sought by those that asked not; I let myself be found by those that sought me not: I said, Here am I, here am I, unto a nation that called itself not by my name.
Jeremiah 14:9Why shouldst thou be as a man that is surprised, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou art in the midst of us, O Lord, and we are called by thy name: abandon us not.
Daniel 9:19O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do it; delay it not; for thy own sake, O my God; for thy name is called 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 →