Isaiah 63:16

For you are our Father; for though Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do you, O Lord, our Father, deliver us: your name has been upon us from the beginning.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

15Turn from heaven, and look from your holy habitation and from your glory: where is your zeal and your strength? where is the abundance of your mercy and of your compassions, that you have withholden yourself from us?

17Why have you caused us to err, O Lord, from your way? and has hardened our hearts, that we should not fear you? Return for your servants' sake, for the sake of the tribes of your inheritance,

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Cross References

Exodus 4:22And you shall say to Pharao, These things says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn.

Deuteronomy 32:6Do you⌃ thus recompense the Lord? is the people thus foolish and unwise? did not he himself your father purchase you, and make you, and form you?

Job 14:21and though his children be multiplied, he knows it not; and if they be few, he is not aware.

Isaiah 41:14Fear not, Jacob, and you Israel few in number; I have helped you, says your God, he that redeems you, O Israel.

Isaiah 44:6Thus says God the King of Israel, and the God of hosts that delivered him; + 44:6 Rev 1:17 I am the first, and I am hereafter: beside me there is no God.

Isaiah 54:5For it is the Lord that made you; the Lord of hosts is his name: and he that delivered you, he is the God of Israel, and shall be called so by the whole earth.

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 →

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