Isaiah · Majority Standard Bible
Isaiah 64 Majority Standard Bible
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1 If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
1 Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence—
2 as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!
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 When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.
3 When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
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 You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
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 Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
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 No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
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 But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
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 Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
9 Don’t be furious, Yahweh. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burned with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste.
12 After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
12 Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?
Cross references (12)
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
- 12 Isaiah 42:14; Psalm 74:10–11; Psalm 83:1; Zechariah 1:12; Psalm 74:18–19
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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 …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Thou art our Father: and we all are clay, the works of Thine hands.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
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)