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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Isaiah 64:9

Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever, viz. Thou hast been angry with us a long time, be not so for ever; but deal with us as may best consist with a father's bowels. It hath reference both to quantity and time, that it might not be very great, nor of long durance. See on Psalms 79:8. We are all thy people, thy peculiar people, Isaiah 28:9. Though we are very bad in ourselves, and very badly handled by our enemies, thou sufferest in our sufferings, for thou hast not people in covenant but us, and wilt thou not leave thyself a people in the world?

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See also Isaiah 64:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 64:9. _NEITHER REMEMBER INIQUITY_] For לעד תזכר _laad tizcor_, one of my MSS. has לעד תקצף _laad tiktsoph_, "be not _angry_," as in the preceding clause. This has been partially obliterat...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 63:7-19-64:12 The Great Intercessory Prayer 1. _Jehovah's loving kindness and power in the past remembered (Isaiah 63:7) _ 2. _Their deepest need (Isaiah 63:15) _ 3. The cry of faith, Thou ar...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 63:15 TO ISAIAH 64:9. A FERVENT PRAYER TO YAHWEH TO INTERVENE AGAIN FOR HIS CHILDREN. The appeal rings like a litany, reminding Yahweh, who has withdrawn into His glorious heavenly palace, of H...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BE NOT, &C. Continue not to be, &c. REMEMBER. continue not to remember....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The prayer now ends in a direct and touching supplication, supported by various pleas, that Jehovah will at last cause His wrath against His people to cease....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _neither remember iniquity for ever_ Psalms 79:8. The nation feels that it is bearing the inexhaustible penalty of past sins. Such a thought was specially natural after the Restoration, when it appear...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 63:7 to Isaiah 64:12. A Prayer of the People for the Renewal of Jehovah's former Lovingkindness (1) Isaiah 63:7. The prayer begins with thankful commemoration of Jehovah's goodness to the nati...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    5. PLEA FOR VERIFICATION TEXT: Isaiah 64:8-12 8 But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. 9 Be not wroth very sore, O Jeh...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. BE NOT WROTH VERY SORE, O LORD - (Psalms 74:1.) WE (ARE) ALL THY PEOPLE -...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-3. The imagery is taken from the account of the divine manifestation at Sinai (Exodus 19:18)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 64 This chapter continues the people’s desperate prayer, which began at...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Isaiah 64:8]_ אַל ־תִּקְצֹ֤ף יְהוָה֙ עַד ־מְאֹ֔ד...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A CRY FOR PARDON Isaiah 64:1-12 _The great past_, Isaiah 64:1-5. We are introduced to the prophet's oratory and hear the outpourings of his heart. As he recalls the story of bygone days, he asks that...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The praise and confession merge into a prayer in which the sore need of the people is first described, and then a cry full of intense anguish is lifted for the dawning of the day when Jehovah will act...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Be not very angry, O LORD, (k) neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people. (k) For so the flesh judges when God does not immediately send comfort....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How beautiful is the connection between the opening and close of this prayer, and indeed the whole, of the Chapter from beginning to end! Surely, every faithful follower of the Lord Jesus, who knows h...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9._Be not angry, O Jehovah, beyond measure. _(193) The people pray that the severity of punishment and the fierceness of the wrath of God may be abated; not that God goes beyond measure, but because t...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65. The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace, had been so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BE NOT WROTH VERY SORE, O LORD,.... They knew not how to deprecate the displeasure of God entirely; having sinned so greatly against him, they were sensible they deserved his wrath; but entreat it mig...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people._ Ver. 9. _Be not wroth very sore, O Lord._]]Neither overly much nor overly...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But now, O Lord, thou art our Father_ Notwithstanding all this, thou art our Father, having both created and adopted us; therefore pity us thy children; _we are the clay, and thou our potter_ We are...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, not to the last extremity nor for eternity, NEITHER REMEMBER INIQUITY FOREVER. BEHOLD, SEE, WE BESEECH THEE, WE ARE ALL THY PEOPLE, the believers relying upon the fact...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AN APPEAL TO JEHOVAH TO FORSAKE HIS WRATH...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 64:9 furious H7107 (H8799) H3966 LORD H3068 remember H2142 (H8799) iniquity H5771 forever H5703 look...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH PLEADS FOR YAHWEH TO EXERCISE HIS SOVEREIGNTY ON THEIR BEHALF (ISAIAH 64:8). Isaiah 64:8 ‘But now O Yahweh, you are our father, We are the clay and you are the potter, And we are all the wo...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 64:1. _Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, as when the melting fire burneth,_ Or, much better, «as when th...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Fear and hope of remnant of Israel in day of vengeance. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: The remnant of Israel in the day of Christ's vengeance will bewail their sins, thereby justifyi...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 64:1. A new scene of prophetic events opens here, where the prophet in time of trouble cries the more in spirit to the Messiah. _Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens and come down._ It is str...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Be not wroth very sore, O Lord_ GOD’S WRATH DEPRECATED I. THE EVIL DEPRECATED. God’s anger. 1. Merited. 2. Acknowledged. II. THE TERMS IN WHICH IT IS DEPRECATED. 1. Imply the justice of God’s p...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 64:8 YOU ARE OUR FATHER. Isaiah puts his hope in God as the sovereign Father (see Psalms 103:13;...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 64:1 ISRAEL'S PRAYER CONTINUED AND CONCLUDED. Not content with praying God to look upon them once more with favour (Isaiah 63:15), Israel now asks for a theophany, or manifesta

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, and that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, and makes thy...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 2:17; Habakkuk 3:2; Isaiah 63:19; Jeremiah 10:24; Jeremiah 3:

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thy people — Thou hast no people in covenant but us, and wilt thou not leave thyself a people in the world?...

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