Isaiah 64:9
Don’t be furious, LORD. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Cross References
2 Kings 25:9He burnt the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burnt every great house with fire.
Psalms 38:1LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
Psalms 79:5How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 79:13So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
Isaiah 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 60:10“Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you; for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favour I have had mercy on you.
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 →