Isaiah · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Isaiah 64 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (1)
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 as wax melts before the fire; and fire shall burn up the enemies, and thy name shall be manifest among the adversaries: at thy presence the nations shall be troubled,
1 Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence—
2 whenever thou shalt work gloriously; trembling from thee shall take hold upon the mountains.
2 as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the water to boil. Make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
3 From of old we have not heard, neither have our eyes seen a God beside thee, and thy works which thou wilt perform to them that wait for mercy.
3 When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 For [these blessings] shall happen to them that work righteousness, and they shall remember thy ways: behold, thou wast angry and we have sinned; therefore we have erred,
4 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.
5 and we are all become as unclean, and all our righteousness as a filthy rag: and we have fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind shall carry us [away].
5 You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?
6 And there is none that calls upon thy name, or that remembers to take hold on thee: for thou hast turned thy face away from us, and hast delivered us up because of our sins.
6 For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 And now, O Lord, thou art our Father, and we are clay, all [of us] the work of thy hands.
7 There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
8 Be not very wroth with us, and remember not our sins forever; but now look on [us], for we are all thy people.
8 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.
9 The city of thy holiness has become desolate, Zion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.
9 Don’t be furious, Yahweh. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
10 The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burned with fire: and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 And for all these things thou, O Lord, hast withholden thyself, and been silent, and hast brought us very low.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burned with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste. 12 Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?
Cross references (11)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Micah 1:3–4; Mark 1:10; Exodus 19:18–19; Nahum 1:5–6; Revelation 20:11
- 2 Psalm 99:1; Jeremiah 33:9; Isaiah 37:20; Jeremiah 5:22; Daniel 6:25–27
- 3 Exodus 34:10; Psalm 65:5–6; Psalm 66:5; Deuteronomy 10:21; Psalm 106:22
- 4 1 Corinthians 2:9–10; Psalm 31:19; James 5:7; Isaiah 25:9; Psalm 130:5
- 5 Hebrews 4:16; Acts 10:35; Philippians 3:13–15; Psalm 90:7–9; Exodus 29:42–43
- 6 Romans 7:18; Romans 7:24; Ephesians 2:1–2; Revelation 3:17–18; Zechariah 3:3
- 7 Ezekiel 22:30; Isaiah 50:2; Isaiah 59:16; Hosea 7:14; Hosea 7:7
- 8 Ephesians 2:10; Psalm 119:73; Jeremiah 18:2–6; Psalm 138:8; Psalm 100:3
- 9 Psalm 74:1–2; Psalm 79:13; Micah 7:18–20; Lamentations 5:20; Isaiah 63:19
- 10 Isaiah 1:7; Luke 21:24; Revelation 11:1–2; Psalm 79:1–7; Daniel 12:7
- 11 2 Kings 25:9; Psalm 74:5–7; Lamentations 1:7; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Lamentations 1:10–11
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… of our sanctuary has become a curse, and the glory which our fathers blessed is burned up with fire, and all its glorious things are laid waste: and Thou refrainest Thyself at these things, and hast held Thy peace, and hast humbled us very sore." And ye are convinced that Jerusalem has been laid waste, as was predicted.
… the resurrection of the just, and fulfils the promises for the kingdom of His Son; subsequently bestowing in a paternal manner those things which neither the eye has seen, nor the ear has heard, nor has [thought concerning them] arisen within the heart of man, For there is the one Son, who accomplished His Father's will; and one human race …
… things which are before," we were seeking between ourselves in the presence of the Truth, which Thou art, of what nature the eternal life of the saints would be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man. But yet we opened wide the mouth of our heart, after those supernal streams of …
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Thou art our Father: and we all are clay, the works of Thine hands.
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For what we shall yet know, neither eye hath seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered the heart of man. For what is faith, but believing what you see not?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)