God’s Word Translation
Isaiah 64:9
9Don’t be too angry, Lord. Don’t remember our sin forever. Now look, we are all 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 or tries to hold on to you. You have hidden your face from us. You have let us be ruined by our sins. 8But now, Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter. We are the work of your hands. Don’t be too angry, Lord. Don’t remember our sin forever. Now look, we are all your people. 10Your holy cities have become a desert. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is a wasteland. 11Our holy and beautiful temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned to the ground. All that we valued has been ruined.
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 6:1O Lord, do not punish me in your anger or discipline me in your rage.
- Psalms 38:1O Lord, do not angrily punish me or discipline me in your wrath.
- Psalms 74:1Why, O God, have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep in your care?
- Psalms 79:5How long, O Lord? Will you remain angry forever? Will your fury continue to burn like fire?
- Jeremiah 10:24Correct me, O Lord, but please be fair. Don’t correct me when you’re angry. Otherwise, you’ll reduce me to nothing.
- Habakkuk 3:2Lord, I have heard the report about you. Lord, I fear your work. In the course of the years, renew it. In the course of the years, reveal it. In all this chaos, remember to be merciful.
- Jeremiah 3:12Go and proclaim these things to the north: “ ‘Come back, unfaithful Israel. It is the Lord speaking. I will no longer frown on you because I’m merciful,’ declares the Lord. ‘I will no longer be angry with you.
- Lamentations 5:20Why have you completely forgotten us? Why have you abandoned us for such a long time?
- Micah 7:18Who is a God like you? You forgive sin and overlook the rebellion of your faithful people. You will not be angry forever, because you would rather show mercy.
- Malachi 1:4“The descendants of Esau may say, ‘We have been beaten down, but we will rebuild the ruins.’ “Yet, this is what the Lord of Armies says: They may rebuild, but I will tear it down. They will be called ‘the Wicked Land’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is always angry.’
- 2 Peter 2:17These false teachers are dried-up springs. They are a mist blown around by a storm. Gloomy darkness has been kept for them.
- Revelation 20:10The devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the fiery lake of sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet were also thrown. They will be tortured day and night forever and ever.
- Isaiah 63:19We have become like those whom you never ruled, like those who are not called by your name.
- Psalms 79:13Then we, your people, the flock in your pasture, will give thanks to you forever. We will praise you throughout every generation.
- Psalms 119:94I am yours. Save me, because I have searched for your guiding principles.
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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