Isaiah 64
64
1 # [2 Sam. 22:10; Ps. 18:9; 144:5] Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
#
Judg. 5:5; Mic. 1:4 that the mountains might quake at your presence—
2 # 64:2 Ch 64:1 in Hebrew as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
# [Josh. 2:9, 10] to make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
3 # [Ex. 14:13; 15:11] When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 # [Ps. 31:19] From of old no one has heard
or perceived by the ear,
# [1 Cor. 2:9] no eye has seen a God besides you,
who acts for those who wait for him.
5You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?#64:5 Or in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved
6 # See ch. 59:12-15 We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
#
Ps. 90:5, 6 We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 # ch. 43:22; Hos. 7:7 There is no one who calls upon your name,
who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have made us melt in#64:7 Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum have delivered us into the hand of our iniquities.
8 # ch. 63:16 But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
# ch. 45:9; Rom. 9:20, 21 we are the clay, and you are our potter;
# ch. 29:23; 45:11 we are all the work of your hand.
9 # [ch. 57:16; Ps. 74:1, 2] Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,
#
Ps. 79:8
and remember not iniquity forever.
Behold, please look, we are all your people.
10 #
Neh. 1:3; 2:3 Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 #
Hag. 1:9; 2:3; [2 Kgs. 25:9; 2 Chr. 36:19; Ps. 74:7] Our holy and beautiful#64:11 Or holy and glorious house,
where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
12 # ch. 42:14; [Zech. 1:12] Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord?
Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?
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Yeshayah (Isaiah) 64
64
1Oh, that You would tear the heavens open, come down, that mountains shall shake before You –
2as when fire burns twigs, as fire makes water boil – to make Your Name known to Your adversaries, so that nations tremble before You.
3When You did awesome matters, which we did not expect, You came down, mountains did shake before You!
4Since the beginning of the ages they have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any Elohim besides You, who acts for those who wait for Him.
5You shall meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, who remembers You in Your ways. See, You were wroth when we sinned in them a long time. And should we be saved?
6And all of us have become as one unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as soiled rags. And all of us fade like a leaf, and our crookednesses, like the wind, have taken us away.
7And there is no one who calls on Your Name, who stirs himself up to be strengthened#Commonly understood as “Take hold of.” in You; for You have hidden Your face from us, and have consumed us because of our crookednesses.
8And now, O יהוה, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You our potter. And we are all the work of Your hand.
9Do not be wroth, O יהוה, nor remember crookedness forever. See, please look, all of us are Your people!
10Your set-apart cities have become a wilderness, Tsiyon has become a wilderness, Yerushalayim a waste.
11Our set-apart and comely House, where our fathers praised You, has been burned up with fire. And all that we treasured has become a ruin.
12In view of all this, would You restrain Yourself, O יהוה? Would You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
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