Isaiah 64:5

For these blessings shall happen to them that work righteousness, and they shall remember your ways: behold, you were angry and we have sinned; therefore we have erred,

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

In Context

4From of old + 64:4 1 Cor 2:9 we have not heard, neither have our eyes seen a God beside you, and your works which you will perform to them that wait for mercy.

6and we are all become as unclean, and all our righteousness as a filthy rag: and we have + 64:6 Heb. and Lit. flowed out. fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind shall carry us away.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:22And I will make myself known to you from thence, and I will speak to you above the propitiatory between the two cherubs, which are upon the ark of testimony, even in all things which I shall charge you concerning the children of Israel.

Exodus 30:6And you shall set it before the veil that is over the ark of the testimonies, wherein I will make myself known to you from thence.

Psalms 37:4For my transgressions have gone over my head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden. 1

Psalms 103:17There the sparrows will build their nests; and the house of the heron takes the lead among them. 1

Isaiah 1:30For they shall be as a turpentine tree that has cast its leaves, and as a garden that has no water.

Isaiah 27:8Fighting and reproaching he will dismiss them; did you not meditate with a harsh spirit, to kill them with a wrathful spirit?

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 64:2-6

Prayer for the Divine Presence; Blessings Prepared for the Saints. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, 2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! 3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. 4 For since the beginning of… Read the whole commentary →

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