Isaiah 64:5

You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, 2 those who remember you in your ways. 1 Behold, you were angry, and we sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·. 2 We have been in violation for a long time. 2 Shall we be saved? 1

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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

4+ 64:4. MP: Nobody has seen or heard the things that God has prepared for those who wait for Him. (John 14:2; 1 Cor 2:9) For from of old men have not sh'ma ·heard·, 2 nor perceived by the ear, + 64:4. Quoted in 1 Cor 2:9 2 nor has the eye seen a God besides you, 2 who works for him who waits for him. 1

6For we have all become like one who is unclean, 2 and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. 1 We all fade like a leaf; 2 and our depravities (moral evils), like the wind, take us away. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 25:22There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I enjoin you for the children of Israel [God prevails].

Exodus 30:6You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.

Psalms 37:4Also delight yourself in Adonai, 2 and he will give you the desires of your heart. 1

Psalms 103:17But Adonai’s chesed ·loving-kindness· is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, + 103:17. Quoted in Luke 1:50 2 his righteousness to children’s children; 1

Isaiah 1:30For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, 2 and as a garden that has no water. 1

Isaiah 27:8In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast 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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