Isaiah

Isaiah 64 ©

1 The church prayeth God to shew himself with power. 4 She acknowledgeth God's mercy to them that seek him, and confesseth her own unworthiness. 9 She pleadeth for compassion toward her desolate state.

1

OH that athou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

a Ps. 144.5; 18.9; 14.7; 97.5. Am. 9.5. Mi. 1.4. ch. 59.20; 62.11; 63.15. Ex. 19.16,18. Ju. 5.4,5. Hab. 3.5,6,10. Ps. 68.8; 114.4-8. Ca. 2.8.
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As when 1the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, bto make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

b ch. 63.12. Ps. 9.16; 106.8. Ex. 14.4; 15.6,15,16. Ps. 92.9; 104.35.
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When thou didst cterrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

c Ex. 34.10. Ju. 5.4,5. Ne. 9.10,11. Ps. 65.5; 78.8,11-13,43-53; 105.27-36; 114.4-8. Hab. 3.3,6.
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For since the beginning of the world dmen have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye 2seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

d Ps. 31.19. 1Co. 2.9. Job 26.14. Je. 31.22. Re. 21; 22. Da. 12.12. Ro. 16.25,26. Col. 1.26. ch. 55.8,9.
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eThou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art *wroth; for we have sinned: fin those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

e Ac. 10.35. Ge. 32.1. La. 3.25,26. Ps. 25.10; 18.20-27; 37.4. De. 16.11,14,15. ch. 26.8; 47.3.
f Ps. 103.17. Mal. 3.6. Je. 31.20. Ho. 11.8. Mat. 24.22.
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But gwe are all as han unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do ifade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, jhave taken us away.

g Ge. 32.10. Job 40.4; 42.5,6. Phi. 3.8,9. ch. 6.5. Lu. 16.15. Da. 9.5.
h Le. 5.2.
i Ps. 90.5,6. ch. 40.6-8; 1.30. Ja. 1.10,11. 1Pe. 1.24. Mat. 21.19.
j Ho. 13.15. Je. 4.11. Zec. 5.9,11. Ps. 1.4. Job 27.21.
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kAnd there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for lthou hast hid thy face from us, and hast 3consumed us, 4because of our iniquities.

k Ps. 14.3,4. Ho. 7.7. ch. 50.2; 59.16; 43.22. Ro. 8.26. Eze. 22.30. ch. 57.13.
l Ho. 5.15. ch. 59.1,2; 8.17; 54.8. Le. 26.36. De. 31.17; 32.19-30. Job 8.4.
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But now, O LORD, mthou art our father; nwe are the clay, and thou our potter; and owe all are the work of thy hand.

m De. 32.6. ch. 63.16.
n ch. 45.9; 29.16. Je. 18.6. Ro. 9.20,21. Ge. 2.7.
o ch. 44.21; 60.21. Job 10.8,9. Ps. 119.73; 138.8.
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¶Be not p*wroth very *sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, qwe are all thy people.

p Hab. 3.2. Je. 10.24. Ps. 79.8; 119.94. Mi. 7.18,19. Ps. 9.13-17; 106.45. Le. 26.42,44,45. Ge. 17.7. De. 7.6. Ps. 76.1; 79.1.
q Ps. 79.13.
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rThy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

r Ps. 74.2,3; 79.1,7. Mi. 3.12. ch. 1.7. 2Ch. 33.11; 36.16-21. Mat. 22.7; 23.35,38. Lu. 19.27,43,44; 21.21,24.
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sOur holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

s La. 2.7. Ps. 74.6-8. 2Ki. 25.9. Eze. 7.20,21; 24.21,25. 2Ch. 36.19,21. Mat. 24.2. ch. 63.18.
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tWilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very *sore?

t ch. 42.14. Ps. 10.1; 74.10,11,18,19; 79.5; 80.3,4; 89.46-51.