Isaiah 64:10
The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burned with fire: and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.
Updated 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, Zion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 23:5and four thousand doorkeepers, and four thousand to praise the Lord with instruments which he made to praise the Lord.
Psalms 79:1For the end, for alternate strains, a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian. 1
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 burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house; and all the houses of the city, and every great house he burned with fire.
Lamentations 1:7Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, 1 And her rejection; 1 She thought on all her desirable things 1 Which were from the days of old, 1 When her people fell into the hands of the oppressor, 1 And there was none to help her: 1 When her enemies saw it 1 They laughed at her habitation. 1
Lamentations 2:4He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: 1 He has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, 1 And has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes 1 In the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: 1 He has poured forth his anger as fire. 1
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 →