Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, 2 is burned with fire; 2 and all our pleasant places are laid waste. 1

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Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

In Context

10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. 2 Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking] has become a wilderness, 2 Jerusalem [City of peace] a desolation. 1

12Will you hold yourself back for these things, Adonai? 2 Will you keep silent, and punish us very severely?

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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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