Isaiah 63:17
Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts, so we do not obey you? 1 Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance. 1
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18Your people possessed your holy place for a short time, but then our enemies trampled it. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:30But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God had hardened his mind and made his heart obstinate, that he might defeat him by your might, which he has now done today.
Psalms 74:1God, why have you rejected us forever? 1 Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture? 1
Psalms 90:13Turn back, Yahweh! How long will it be? 1 Have pity on your servants. 1
Psalms 119:36Direct my heart toward your covenant decrees 1 and away from unrighteous gain. 1
Isaiah 6:10Make the heart of this people insensitive, and their ears dull, and blind their eyes. 1 Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and then turn and be healed.”
Isaiah 29:13The Lord said, “This people comes close to me with their mouths 1 and honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 1 Their honor for me is only a commandment of men that has been taught. 1
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 63:16-19
Earnest Pleadings. ( b. c. 706.) 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? 16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord , art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. 17 O Lord , why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for… Read the whole commentary →