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Isaiah 64:8
8But Lord, you are still our Father. We are like clay that you have used. You are like the potter who has made us into pots. You made us all with your own hands.
Isaiah 64:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
- New King James Version (NKJV)But now, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.
Context of Isaiah 64:8
6Our sins have made us all like unclean people, who cannot worship you. Even the good things that we try to do are like dirty bits of cloth. Our sins will blow us all away, as the wind blows away dead leaves. 7Nobody prays in your name, or calls out to you to help them. It seems that you have turned away from us. You have left us for our sins to rule us. But Lord, you are still our Father. We are like clay that you have used. You are like the potter who has made us into pots. You made us all with your own hands. 9Lord, please do not be too angry with us. Do not hold our sins in your mind for ever. Do not forget us! We are your people, all of us! 10Your holy cities are as empty as a desert. Yes, Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is just a heap of stones.
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וְעַתָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אָבִ֣ינוּ אָ֑תָּה אֲנַ֤חְנוּ הַחֹ֙מֶר֙ וְאַתָּ֣ה יֹצְרֵ֔נוּ וּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יָדְךָ֖ כֻּלָּֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 64:8
- Isaiah 63:16Remember that you are our Father. Maybe our ancestor Abraham does not recognize us. Even Israel himself may not recognize us. But you, Lord, are our Father. Since times long ago, your name has been our Redeemer.
- Exodus 4:22Then you must speak to Pharaoh. You must say, “The Lord says, Israel is my first son.
- Deuteronomy 32:6You are fools who do not understand what is right. You should not do these things against the Lord. He is your Father, the one who created you. He made you become a strong nation.
- Galatians 3:26All of you are God's children because you believe in Christ Jesus.
- Isaiah 29:16Your minds are really confused! You think that the clay is more important than the person who uses it to make pots! A bowl cannot say to its maker, ‘You did not make me!’ A pot cannot say to the potter, ‘You do not know what you are doing!’
- Isaiah 45:9It will be very bad for people who quarrel with their Maker. They are like pieces of a pot that are lying on the ground among all the other pieces. The clay does not say to the potter, ‘What do you think you are you making?’ The pot does not say to the potter, ‘Your work is useless!’
- Jeremiah 18:2‘Go down to the potter's house. I will tell you my message there.’
- Romans 9:20But you are only human. You have no authority to speak against God like that. God has made you. A pot cannot speak against the person who made it! It cannot ask him, ‘Why did you make me like this?’
- Isaiah 43:7Bring back everyone who belongs to me. I created them, so that they would bring honour to me. I made them who they are. Yes, I made them!
- Isaiah 44:21The Lord says: ‘Jacob's descendants, remember these things, because you, Israel, are my servant. I created you to be my servant. Israel, I will not forget you.
- Job 10:8Your own hands have made me who I am. But now you are completely destroying me.
- Psalms 100:3Understand that the Lord is God. He made us and we are his people. He takes care of us, like a shepherd with his sheep.
- Psalms 119:73You made me with your hands. You made me what I am. Help me to understand things well, so that I learn your commands.
- Psalms 138:8The Lord stands with me to do what he has promised. Yes, Lord, your faithful love will always continue. You have made us who we are, so do not leave us now!
- Ephesians 2:10It is God who has worked in us to make us what we are. He has given us a new life because we are united with Christ Jesus. He saved us so that now we can do good things in our lives. Those are good things that he has already prepared for us to do.
Commentaries on Isaiah 64:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8But, now, O Lord, thou art our Father "But thou, O Jehovah, thou art our Father" - For ועתה veattah, and now, five MSS., one of them ancient, and the two oldest editions, 1486 and 1488, have ואתה veattah, and thou, and so the Chaldee seems to have read. The repetition has great force. The other word may be well spared. "But now, O Lord, thou art our Father." How very affectionate is the complaint in this and the following verses! But how does the distress…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8But now, O Lord, thou art our Father - (See the notes at Isaiah 63:16). We are the clay - The idea seems to be, that their condition then had been produced by him as clay is moulded by the potter, and that they were to be returned and restored entirely by him - as they had no more power to do it than the clay had to shape itself. The sense is, that they were wholly in his hand and at his disposal (see the notes at Isaiah 29:16; Isaiah 45:9). And thou our…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. 8clay … potter: See also Isaiah 29:16; 45:9; Romans 9:20–21.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. father--(Is 63:16). clay ... potter--(Is 29:16; 45:9). Unable to mould themselves aright, they beg the sovereign will of God to mould them unto salvation, even as He made them at the first, and is their "Father."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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