Isaiah 64:9

The city of thy holiness has become desolate, Zion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

In Context

8Be not very wroth with us, and remember not our sins forever; but now look on us, for we are all thy people.

10The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burned with fire: and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.

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Cross References

2 Kings 25:9And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every house did the captain of the guard burn.

Psalms 38:1For the end, a Song of David, to Jeduthun. 1

Psalms 79:5O Lord God of hosts, 1 How long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant? 1

Psalms 79:13Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, 1 While all that pass by the way pluck it? 1

Isaiah 43:25I, even I, am he that blots out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and thy sins; and I will not remember them.

Isaiah 60:10And strangers shall build thy walls, and their kings shall wait upon thee: for by reason of my wrath I smote thee, and by reason of mercy I loved thee.

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 →

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