Christian Standard Bible
Isaiah 64:7
7No one calls on your name, striving to take hold of you. For you have hidden your face from us and made us melt because of our iniquity.
Isaiah 64:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and have given us over to our sins.
- English Standard Version (ESV)There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And there is no one who calls on Your name, Who stirs himself up to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us, And have consumed us because of our iniquities.
Context of Isaiah 64:7
5You welcome the one who joyfully does what is right; they remember you in your ways. But we have sinned, and you were angry. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins? 6All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment; all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind. No one calls on your name, striving to take hold of you. For you have hidden your face from us and made us melt because of our iniquity. 8Yet Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we all are the work of your hands. 9Lord, do not be terribly angry or remember our iniquity forever. Please look — all of us are your people!
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וְאֵין־קוֹרֵ֣א בְשִׁמְךָ֔ מִתְעוֹרֵ֖ר לְהַחֲזִ֣יק בָּ֑ךְ כִּֽי־הִסְתַּ֤רְתָּ פָנֶ֙יךָ֙ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ וַתְּמוּגֵ֖נוּ בְּיַד־עֲוֹנֵֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- none that callethקָרָאqârâ' · to call: call toH7121
- upon thy nameשֵׁםshêm · nameH8034
- that stirreth upעוּר‛ûr · to rouseH5782
- himself to take holdחָזַקchâzaq · to strengthen: holdH2388
- of thee: for thou hast hidסָתַרsâthar · to hideH5641
- thy faceפָּנֶהpânîym · faceH6440
- from us, and hast consumedמוּגmûg · to meltH4127
- us, becauseיָדyâd · handH3027
- of our iniquitiesעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771
Cross-references for Isaiah 64:7
- Isaiah 50:2Why was no one there when I came? Why was there no one to answer when I called? Is my arm too weak to redeem? Or do I have no power to rescue? Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke; I turn the rivers into a wilderness; their fish rot because of lack of water and die of thirst.
- Isaiah 59:16He saw that there was no man — he was amazed that there was no one interceding; so his own arm brought salvation, and his own righteousness supported him.
- Psalms 14:4Will evildoers never understand? They consume my people as they consume bread; they do not call on the Lord.
- Ezekiel 22:30I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, but I found no one.
- Hosea 7:7All of them are as hot as an oven, and they consume their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls on me.
- Isaiah 27:5Or let it take hold of my strength; let it make peace with me — make peace with me.
- Isaiah 56:4For the Lord says this: “For the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose what pleases me, and hold firmly to my covenant,
- Isaiah 57:17Because of his sinful greed I was angry, so I struck him; I was angry and hid; but he went on turning back to the desires of his heart.
- Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities are separating you from your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not listen.
- Deuteronomy 31:17My anger will burn against them on that day; I will abandon them and hide my face from them so that they will become easy prey. Many troubles and afflictions will come to them. On that day they will say, ‘Haven’t these troubles come to us because our God is no longer with us?’
- Deuteronomy 32:19When the Lord saw this, he despised them, angered by his sons and daughters.
- Hosea 5:15I will depart and return to my place until they recognize their guilt and seek my face; they will search for me in their distress.
- Jeremiah 9:7Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says: I am about to refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of my dear people?
- Ezekiel 22:18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become merely dross to me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are just dross from silver.
- Ezekiel 24:11Set the empty pot on its coals so that it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt inside it; its corrosion will be consumed.
- Job 8:4Since your children sinned against him, he gave them over to their rebellion.
Commentaries on Isaiah 64:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7There is none - Twelve MSS. have אין ein, without the conjunction ו vau prefixed; and so read the Chaldee and Vulgate. And hast consumed us because of our iniquities "And hast delivered us up into the hands of our iniquities" - For ותמוגנו vattemugenu, "hast dissolved us," the Septuagint, Syriac, and Chaldee had in their copies תמגננו temaggenenu, "hast delivered us up." Houbigant. Secker.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7And there is none that calleth upon thy name - The nation is corrupt and degenerate. None worship God in sincerity. That stirreth up himself - The word used here (מתעורר mite‛ôrēr ) refers to the effort which is requisite to rouse oneself when oppressed by a spirit of heavy slumber; and the idea here is, that the nation was sunk in spiritual torpor, and that the same effort was needful to excite it which was requisite to rouse one who had sunk down to…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-12Verses 6-12 The people of God, in affliction, confess and bewail their sins, owning themselves unworthy of his mercy. Sin is that abominable thing which the Lord hates. Our deeds, whatever they may seem to be, if we think to merit by them at God's hand, are as rags, and will not cover us; filthy rags, and will but defile us. Even our few good works in which there is real excellence, as fruits of the Spirit, are so defective and defiled as done by us, that…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7You have hidden Your face from us: See Isaiah 1:15; 30:20; 59:2. delivered us into the hand of our iniquity: Because the people insisted on sinning, God left them to perish in their sinful ways (see Romans 1:24).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. stirreth--rouseth himself from spiritual drowsiness. take hold--(Is 27:5).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 64
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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