Isaiah 64:5

You come to help those who rejoice in doing what is right, those who call to mind your ways and obey them. 1 You were angry when we sinned. In your ways we will always be rescued. 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

4Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, 1 nor eye seen any God besides you, who does things for him who waits for him. 1

6For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a menstrual rag. 1 We have all withered like leaves; our iniquities, like the wind, carry us away. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 25:22It is at the ark that I will meet with you. I will speak with you from my position above the atonement lid. It will be from between the two cherubim over the ark of the testimony that I will speak to you about all the commands I will give you for the Israelites.

Exodus 30:6You must put the incense altar before the curtain that is by the ark of the testimony. It will be before the atonement lid that is over the ark of the testimony, where I will meet with you.

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

Psalms 103:17But the covenant faithfulness of Yahweh is from everlasting to everlasting on those who honor him. 1 His righteousness extends to their descendants. 1

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

Isaiah 27:8In exact measure you have contended, sending Jacob and Israel away; he drove them away with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind. + 27:8 Instead of In exact measure , many modern versions have an idea similar to By driving them away . 1

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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