Tree of Life Version
Isaiah 64:8
8Do not be angry much more, Adonai, or remember iniquity forever. Oh, please see, we are all Your people!
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
6No one calls on Your Name, or stirs himself up to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities. 7But now, Adonai, You are our Father. We are the clay and You are our potter, We are all the work of Your hand. Do not be angry much more, Adonai, or remember iniquity forever. Oh, please see, we are all Your people! 9Your holy cities became a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 10Our holy and beautiful House, where our fathers praised You, Has been burned with fire— all our pleasant things are laid waste.
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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 63:16For You are our Father— even if Abraham would not know us or Israel not recognize us. You, Adonai, are our Father, our Redeemer— from everlasting is Your Name.
- Exodus 4:22You are to say to Pharaoh, “This is what Adonai says: ‘Israel is My son, My firstborn.
- Deuteronomy 32:6Is this how you pay back Adonai, O foolish, unwise people? Isn’t He your Father who ransomed you? He made you and established you.
- Galatians 3:26For you are all sons of God through trusting in Messiah Yeshua.
- Isaiah 29:16Your perversity! Should the potter be regarded the same as the clay? Should the thing made say to its maker, “You did not make me”? Or the thing formed say of its former, “You have no understanding?”
- Isaiah 45:9Oy , to one who quarrels with his Maker, like a pot among the pots of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, “What have you made?” Or does your work say, “It has no handles”?
- Jeremiah 18:2“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.”
- Romans 9:20But who in the world are you, O man, who talks back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
- Isaiah 43:7Everyone who is called by My Name, whom I created for My glory. I formed him—yes, I made him!”
- Isaiah 44:21Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel, for you are My servant. I formed you, you are My servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by Me!
- Job 10:8“Your hands molded and fashioned me, will You now destroy me completely?
- Psalms 100:3Know that Adonai, He is God. It is He who has made us, and we are His. We are His people, the sheep of His pasture.
- Psalms 119:73Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding that I may learn Your mitzvot.
- Psalms 138:8Adonai will fulfill His purpose for me. Your lovingkindness, Adonai, endures forever. Do not abandon the work of Your hands.
- Ephesians 2:10For we are His workmanship—created in Messiah Yeshua for good deeds, which God prepared beforehand so we might walk in them.
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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