Isaiah 49:19 describes the great damage that enemies have caused all through Judah. In particular, enemies have ruined *Jerusalem. They have even ruined the *Temple, which stood on the mountain called *Zion.
THY HOLY CITIES ARE A WILDERNESS - It is to be remembered that this is supposed to be spoken near the close of the exile in Babylon. In accordance with the usual custom in this book, Isaiah throws him...
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...
These verses, which describe the Temple as not merely desecrated but actually burned, seem to be a late addition from a period of which we have no exact information. The cities of the holy land are b...
HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:6. DESOLATION. Referring to the time of Matthew 23:38; Matthew 24:2....
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...
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....
_Thy holy cities_ is a phrase which does not occur elsewhere, and both LXX. and Vulg. substitute the sing. for the plur. It is not necessary, however, to follow them. If the land is holy (Zechariah 2:...
The evidences of Jehovah's displeasure are to be seen on every hand, in the desolation and ruin of the sacred places....
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...
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. THY HOLY CITIES ARE A WILDERNESS, ZION IS A WILDERNESS, JERUSALEM A DESOLATION. No city but Jerusalem is called "the...
1-3. The imagery is taken from the account of the divine manifestation at Sinai (Exodus 19:18)....
HOLY CITIES] Elsewhere Jerusalem only is so called, but the attribute is here extended to the whole land (Zechariah 2:12)....
THY HOLY CITIES... — There is no other instance of the plural, and this probably led the LXX. and Vulg. to substitute the singular. It probably rests on the thought that the whole land was holy (Zecha...
_[Isaiah 64:9]_ עָרֵ֥י קָדְשְׁךָ֖ הָי֣וּ מִדְבָּ֑ר צִיֹּון֙...
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...
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...
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...
(l) Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. (l) Who were dedicated to your service, and to call on your Name....
_Desolate, under Antiochus Epiphanes, 1 Machabees i. 31., and iv. 38. (Calmet)_...
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...
10._The cities of thy holiness. _The Church again recounts her miseries, that she may move God to mercy and obtain pardon. She says that the cities have been reduced to “a wilderness;” and, for the sa...
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...
THY HOLY CITIES ARE A WILDERNESS,.... Meaning either Zion, the city of David, and Jerusalem; the one called the upper, the other the lower city; now uninhabited, and a mere wilderness: or else the oth...
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Ver. 10. _Thy holy cities are a wilderness._] And is that for thine honour. "Behold, see, we beseech thee....
_Thy holy cities_ Zion and Jerusalem, mentioned immediately after; or other cities also in the land of Judea besides these two; called _holy_, because God had his synagogues in them, in which he was w...
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, this being a special appeal to the Lord to preserve His honor; ZION IS A WILDERNESS, JERUSALEM A DESOLATION, all of which ought deeply to affect His heart and arouse...
AN APPEAL TO JEHOVAH TO FORSAKE HIS WRATH...
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...
THY HOLY CITIES; either Zion and Jerusalem, being the cities they instance in: q.d. Thy holy cities, viz. Zion and Jerusalem: or rather, other cities also in the land of Judea besides those two; calle...
Isaiah 64:10 holy H6944 cities H5892 wilderness H4057 Zion H6726 wilderness H4057 Jerusalem H3389 desolation H8077...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
2 Chronicles 36:19; 2 Kings 25:9; Daniel 12:7; Daniel 9:26; Daniel