Isaiah 64:11
Our holy and our beautiful house Where our fathers praised thee, Hath become a conflagration,—And, all our delightful places, are in ruins!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
10Thy holy cities, have become a wilderness,—Zion, a wilderness, hath become, Jerusalem, a desolation!
Cross References
1 Kings 8:56Blessed, be Yahweh, who hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised,—there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
2 Chronicles 6:4and he said, Blessed be Yahweh, God of Israel, who spake with his mouth, unto David my father,-and, with his hand, hath fulfilled, saying:
2 Chronicles 7:6while, the priests, over their charges, were standing, the Levites also, with the instruments for the songs of Yahweh, which David the king had made, for giving thanks unto Yahweh, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness, when David offered praise by their means,—and, the priests, kept on blowing trumpets over against them, while, all Israel, were standing.
2 Chronicles 36:19and they burned the house of God, and threw down the wall of Jerusalem,—and, all the palaces thereof, burned they with fire, and, all the precious vessels thereof, he destroyed;
Jeremiah 52:13and he burned the house of Yahweh and the house of the king,—yea all the houses of Jerusalem even every great man’s house, burned he with fire;
Lamentations 1:10His hand, hath the adversary spread out, over all her precious things,—for she saw that, the nations, entered her sanctuary, as to whom thou didst command they should not enter—in the convocation—unto 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 →