Isaiah 64:5

Thou art the friend of those who joyfully do righteousness, Those who remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou art angry, and we are punished; Long doth the punishment endure, before we are delivered.

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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

4For never have men heard, nor perceived by the ear, Nor hath eye seen, a God beside thee. Who doeth such things for those that trust in him.

6We are all of us an unclean thing; Like a filthy garment is all our righteousness; We are all withered like a leaf, And our sins, like a storm, have blown us away.

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Cross References

Psalms 37:4Place thy delight in the LORD. And he will give thee thy heart's desires.

Psalms 103:17But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting to them that fear him, And his righteousness to children's children,

Isaiah 1:30And ye shall be as a terebinth-tree whose leaves are withered, And as a garden in which is no water.

Isaiah 27:8In measure, by sending her away, didst thou punish her, Taking her away in the rough tempest, in the day of the east wind.

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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