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Isaiah 64:9
9Do not be angry beyond measure, Lord; do not remember our sins forever. Oh, look on us, we pray, for 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.
- 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!
- New Living Translation (NLT)Don’t be so angry with us, Lord. Please don’t remember our sins forever. Look at us, we pray, and see that we are all your people.
Context of Isaiah 64:9
7No 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. 8Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. 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. 10Your sacred cities have become a wasteland; even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation. 11Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.
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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 or discipline me in your wrath.
- Psalms 38:1Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
- Psalms 74:1O God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
- Psalms 79:5How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
- Jeremiah 10:24Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure— not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.
- Habakkuk 3:2Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.
- Jeremiah 3:12Go, proclaim this message toward the north: “ ‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am faithful,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will not be angry forever.
- Lamentations 5:20Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long?
- Micah 7:18Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.
- Malachi 1:4Edom may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins.” But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord.
- 2 Peter 2:17These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
- Revelation 20:10And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
- Isaiah 63:19We are yours from of old; but you have not ruled over them, they have not been called by your name.
- Psalms 79:13Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; from generation to generation we will proclaim your praise.
- Psalms 119:94Save me, for I am yours; I have sought out 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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