Isaiah 64:8
Be not very wroth with us, and remember not our sins forever; but now look on us, for we are all thy people.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
7And now, O Lord, thou art our Father, and we are clay, all of us the work of thy hands.
9The city of thy holiness has become desolate, Zion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.
Cross References
Exodus 32:12Take heed lest at any time the Egyptians speak, saying, With evil intent he brought them out to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from off the earth; cease from thy wrathful anger, and be merciful to the sin of thy people,
Deuteronomy 32:6Do ye thus recompense the Lord? 1 Is the people thus foolish and unwise? 1 Did not he himself thy father purchase thee, 1 And make thee, and form thee? 1
Psalms 74:1For the end, Destroy not, a Psalm of a Song for Asaph. 1
Psalms 100:3I have not set before mine eyes any unlawful thing; 1 I have hated transgressors. 1
Psalms 138:8If I should go up to heaven, thou art there: 1 If I should go down to hell, thou art present. 1
Isaiah 43:7even all who are called by my name: for I have prepared him for my glory, and I have formed him, and have made him:
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 →