Christian Standard Bible
Isaiah 64:9
9Lord, do not be terribly angry or remember our iniquity forever. Please look — all of us are your people!
Isaiah 64:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
- New International Version (NIV)Do not be angry beyond measure, Lord; do not remember our sins forever. Oh, look on us, we pray, for we are all your people.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Be not so terribly angry, O Lord, and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Do not be furious, O Lord, Nor remember iniquity forever; Indeed, please look—we all are Your people!
Context of Isaiah 64:9
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. 8Yet Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we all are the work of your hands. Lord, do not be terribly angry or remember our iniquity forever. Please look — all of us are your people! 10Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11Our holy and beautiful temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned down, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
Read all of Isaiah 64Isaiah 64:9 word by word
אַל־תִּקְצֹ֤ף יְהוָה֙ עַד־מְאֹ֔ד וְאַל־לָעַ֖ד תִּזְכֹּ֣ר עָוֹ֑ן הֵ֥ן הַבֶּט־נָ֖א עַמְּךָ֥ כֻלָּֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Isaiah 64:9
- Psalms 6:1Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger; do not discipline me in your wrath.
- Psalms 38:1Lord, do not punish me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
- Psalms 74:1Why have you rejected us forever, God? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?
- Psalms 79:5How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy keep burning like fire?
- Jeremiah 10:24Discipline me, Lord, but with justice — not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.
- Habakkuk 3:2Lord, I have heard the report about you; Lord, I stand in awe of your deeds. Revive your work in these years; make it known in these years. In your wrath remember mercy!
- Jeremiah 3:12Go, proclaim these words to the north, and say, ‘Return, unfaithful Israel. This is the Lord’s declaration. I will not look on you with anger, for I am unfailing in my love. This is the Lord’s declaration. I will not be angry forever.
- Lamentations 5:20Why do you continually forget us, abandon us for our entire lives?
- Micah 7:18Who is a God like you, forgiving iniquity and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not hold on to his anger forever because he delights in faithful love.
- Malachi 1:4Though Edom says, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of Armies says this: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country and the people the Lord has cursed forever.
- 2 Peter 2:17These people are springs without water, mists driven by a storm. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.
- Revelation 20:10The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
- Isaiah 63:19We have become like those you never ruled, like those who did not bear your name.
- Psalms 79:13Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture, will thank you forever; we will declare your praise to generation after generation.
- Psalms 119:94I am yours; save me, for I have studied your precepts.
Commentaries on Isaiah 64:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Neither remember iniquity - For תזכר לעד laad tizcor, one of my MSS. has תקצף לעד laad tiktsoph, "be not angry," as in the preceding clause. This has been partially obliterated, and תזכר tizcor, written in the margin by a later hand: but this MS. abounds with words of this kind, all altered by later hands.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. 1-12The prophet’s reflections on the past (Isaiah 63:7–14) inspire him to pray that God would now rescue his people as he has done before.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. (Psa 74:1, 2). we are ... thy people--(Jr 14:9, 21).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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