Isaiah 64:8

But now, Adonai, you are our Father. 2 We are the clay, and you our potter. 2 We all are the work of your hand. 1

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7There is no one who calls on your name, 2 who stirs himself up to take hold of you; 1 for you have hidden your face from us, 2 and have consumed us by means of our depravities (moral evils). 1

9Don’t be furious, Adonai, 2 and don’t remember depravity (moral evil) forever. 1 Look and see, we beg you, 2 we are all your people. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 32:12Why should the Egyptians [people from Abode of slavery] speak, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and teshuvah ·turn repent· of this evil against your people.

Deuteronomy 32:6Is this the way you repay Adonai, 2 foolish and unwise people? 1 Is not he your father who has bought you? 2 He has made you and established you. 1 (2)

Psalms 74:1God, why have you rejected us forever? 2 Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? 1

Psalms 100:3Know that Adonai, he is God. 2 It is he who has made us, and we are his. 2 We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 1

Psalms 138:8Adonai will fulfill that which concerns me; 2 your chesed ·loving-kindness·, Adonai, endures forever. 2 Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Isaiah 43:7everyone who is called by my name, 2 and whom I have created for my kavod ·weighty glory·, 2 whom I have formed, 2 yes, whom I have made.’” 1

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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