Isaiah 64:9
Do not be indignant, O Yahweh so very greatly, Neither perpetually, do thou recall iniquity,—Lo! look around, we pray thee…thy people, are, we all.
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
2 Kings 25:9and 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.
Psalms 38:1O Yahweh, do not, in thine anger, correct me, nor, in thy wrath, chastise me;
Psalms 79:5How long, O Yahweh, wilt thou be angry utterly? Shall thy jealousy, burn like fire?
Psalms 79:13So, we, thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks unto thee, to times age-abiding,—To generation after generation, will we recount thy praise.
Isaiah 43:25I—I, am he that is ready, To wipe out thy transgressions for mine own sake,—And, thy sins, not remember.
Isaiah 60:10So shall the sons of the foreigner, build thy walls, And their kings, shall wait upon thee,—For in my vexation, I smote thee, But in my favour, have I had compassion upon 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 →