Isaiah 64:7

There are none who calls on your name, who makes an effort to take hold of you. 1 For you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away in the hand of our iniquities. 1

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

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

8Yet, Yahweh, you are our father; 1 we are the clay. You are our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 32:12Why should the Egyptians say, 'He led them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth?' Turn from your burning anger and relent from this punishment on your people.

Deuteronomy 32:19Yahweh saw this and he rejected them, 1 because his sons and his daughters provoked him so. 1

Job 10:9Call to mind, I beg you, that you have fashioned me like clay; 1 will you bring me into dust again? 1

Psalms 100:3Know that Yahweh is God; 1 he made us, and we are his. 1 We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. 1

Isaiah 27:5unless they grasp my protection and make peace with me; let them make peace with me. 1

Isaiah 50:2Why did I come but there was no one there? Why did I call but no one answered? 1 Was my hand too short to ransom you? Was there no power in me to rescue you? 1 Look, at my rebuke I dry up the sea; I make the rivers a desert; 1 their fish die for lack of water and rot. 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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