Isaiah 64:9

Don’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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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

8But 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

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

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Cross References

Psalms 38:1Adonai, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, 2 neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. 1

Psalms 79:5How long, Adonai? 2 Will you be angry forever? 2 Will your jealousy burn like fire? 1

Psalms 79:13So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, 2 will yadah ·extend hands in thankful praise· to you forever. 2 We will tehilah ·praise song· you forever, to all generations.

Isaiah 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your rebellious breaches of relationships for my own sake; 2 and I will not remember your habitual sins ·missing the marks·. 1

Isaiah 60:10“Foreigners will build up your walls, 2 and their kings will serve you: 1 for in my wrath I struck you, 2 but in my favor have I had racham ·compassionate merciful love· on you. 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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