Isaiah 64:9
Don’t be furious, LORD. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
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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 →