Isaiah 64:12

For these dost Thou refrain Thyself, Jehovah? Thou art silent, and dost afflict us very sore!'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

In Context

11Our holy and our beautiful house, Where praise Thee did our fathers, Hath become burnt with fire, And all our desirable things have become a waste.

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Cross References

Psalms 74:10Till when, O God, doth an adversary reproach? Doth an enemy despise thy name for ever?

Psalms 79:5Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.

Psalms 83:1A Song, — A Psalm of Asaph. O God, let there be no silence to Thee, Be not silent, nor be quiet, O God.

Isaiah 42:14I have kept silent from of old, I keep silent, I refrain myself, As a travailing woman I cry out, I desolate and swallow up together.

Revelation 6:10and they were crying with a great voice, saying, 'Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?'

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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