Isaiah 63:19
We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
In Context
18Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
Cross References
Judges 5:4“LORD, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.
2 Samuel 22:10He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
Psalms 79:6Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
Isaiah 65:1“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
Jeremiah 14:9Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, LORD, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.
Daniel 9:19Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”
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 →