Isaiah 64:9

Be not angry, O Lord, aboue measure, neither remember iniquitie for euer: lo, we beseech thee beholde, we are all thy people.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

In Context

8But now, O Lord, thou art our Father: we are the clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the worke of thine hands.

10Thine holy cities lye waste: Zion is a wildernes, and Ierusalem a desart.

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Cross References

2 Kings 25:9And burnt the house of the Lord, and the Kings house, and all the houses of Ierusalem, and all the great houses burnt he with fire.

Psalms 38:1A Psalme of Dauid for remembrance. O Lord, rebuke mee not in thine anger, neither chastise me in thy wrath.

Psalms 79:5Lord, howe long wilt thou be angrie, for euer? shall thy gelousie burne like fire?

Psalms 79:13So wee thy people, and sheepe of thy pasture shall praise thee for euer: and from generation to generation we will set foorth thy praise.

Isaiah 43:25I, euen I am he that putteth away thine iniquities for mine owne sake, and will not remember thy sinnes.

Isaiah 60:10And the sonnes of strangers shall builde vp thy walles, and their Kings shall minister vnto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my mercie I had compassion on thee.

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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