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Isaiah 64:7

Andthere is none that calleth, &c. an easily intelligible hyperbole.

stirreth himself up "arouseth himself," the same verb as in Isaiah 51:17.

consumed us, because of our iniquities lit. "melted us by the hand of our iniquities." Cf. Ezekiel 33:10, "Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we waste away in them, how should we then live?" A better reading, supported by LXX., Pesh. and Targ., is delivered us into the hand (i.e. the power) of our iniquities. Cf. Job 8:4.

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