What does Isaiah 63:16 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer;d thy name is from everlasting."
Verse Isaiah 63:16. _OUR REDEEMER; THY NAME IS FROM EVERLASTING_ - "O deliver us for the sake of thy name."] The present text reads, as our translation has rendered it, "Our Redeemer, thy name is from...
DOUBTLESS - Hebrew, כי _kı̂y_ - ‘For;’ verily; surely. It implies the utmost confidence that he still retained the feelings of a tender father. THOU ART OUR FATHER - Notwithstanding appearances to th...
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 a...
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 The appeal rings like a litany, reminding Yahweh, who has withdrawn into His glorious heavenly palace, of H...
THOU ART OUR FATHER. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:6). FATHER.. rare word in this connection. Compare Isaiah 64:8. REDEEMER. See note on Isaiah 60:16....
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...
DISCOURSE: 1017 PLEADING WITH GOD Isaiah 63:15. _Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory; where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels...
DOUBTLESS THOU ART OUR FATHER— "Our only hope is the relation we have to thee, who hast vouchsafed to call thyself our Father; for it is in vain to boast that we are the children of Abraham or Jacob....
3. PETITION OF VICTIMS TEXT: Isaiah 63:15-19 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy h...
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. DOUBTLESS THOU (ART) OUR F...
THE GLORIOUS FUTURE OF THE JEWISH RACE This concluding group of Chapter s is chiefly distinguished by glowing pictures of the future of Jerusalem, when the Jews shall be restored to their land again....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 63 THE *LORD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST THE NATIONS V1 Someone is coming from t...
DOUBTLESS THOU ART OUR FATHER, THOUGH ABRAHAM... — Better, _For Abraham is ignorant of us._ The passage is striking as being an anticipation of the New Testament thought, that the Fatherhood of, God r...
כִּֽי ־אַתָּ֣ה אָבִ֔ינוּ כִּ֤י אַבְרָהָם֙ לֹ֣א יְדָעָ֔נוּ וְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹ֣א יַכִּירָ֑נוּ אַתָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ אָבִ֔ינוּ
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...
SALVATION OBSTRUCTED BY REBELLION Isaiah 63:10-19 The exhortation of the Apostle against grieving the Holy Spirit is based on Isaiah 63:10. See Ephesians 4:30. There is no limit to the gracious work...
The last section of Isaiah (63-66) sets forth anew the operation of the principle of discrimination. All the blessing which has been described can result only from holiness, and ere that can be establ...
Doubtless thou [art] our father, though (s) Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, [art] our father, our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting. (s) Though Abraham...
Abraham, &c. That is, Abraham will not now acknowledge us for his children, by reason of our degeneracy; but thou, O Lord, art our true father and our redeemer, and no other can be called our parent i...
Reader! do you want a specimen of prayer? Here is a most blessed one; in which both supplication and praise, holy pleadings and waitings, are most beautifully blended. And what an unanswerable argumen...
16._Surely thou art our Father. _God permits us to reveal our hearts familiarly before him; for prayer is nothing else than the opening up of our heart before God; as the greatest alleviation is, to p...
Isaiah 63:1-6. We find again here the terrible judgment of chapter 34 executed by Jehovah (or rather having been already executed, for He returns from it). The result is the peace and blessing which w...
DOUBTLESS THOU ART OUR FATHER,.... Therefore why shouldst thou restrain thy mercies and bowels of compassion from us? or therefore look down upon us, and behold us; the church pleads her relation to G...
_Doubtless thou [art] our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, [art] our father, our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting._ Ver. 16. _Doubtless t...
_Look down from heaven_ In this excellent and pious prayer of the first-fruits of the converted Jews, in which they entreat God, for his grace and mercy, to behold them with an eye of compassion, they...
The Lord's Loving-Kindness in the Past and his People's Prayers....
OUR REDEEMER, THY NAME IS FROM EVERLASTING: Or, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name...
15-19 They beseech him to look down on the abject condition of their once-favoured nation. Would it not be glorious to his name to remove the veil from their hearts, to return to the tribes of his inh...
DOUBTLESS THOU ART OUR FATHER: thus they urge God with that relation he stands in unto them, ZECHARIAH 2:10; therefore we as thy children expect the bowels and compassions of a father. THOUGH ABRAHAM,...
Isaiah 63:16 Doubtless H3588 Father H1 Abraham H85 ignorant H3808 H3045 (H8804) Israel H3478 acknowledge H5234 (H8686) LORD H3068 Father H1 Redeemer H1350 (H8802) Everlasting H5769 name H8034 thou ar...
‘For you are our father. Though Abraham does not know us, And Israel does not acknowledge us, You, O Yahweh, are our father, Our redeemer from everlasting is your name.' So he finally reminds God...
OUR FATHER Compare (Isaiah 1:2); (Isaiah 64:8). Israel, collectively, the national Israel, recognizes God as the national Father (cf) (Exodus 4:22); (Exodus 4:23); Doubtless the believing Israelite...
Isaiah 63:16 I. These words express a deep longing of the human heart. With all its folly, and frivolity, and sin, the heart of man has been made to feel after these words: "Our Father our Father whi...
Isaiah 63:1. Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty...
CONTENTS: Day of vengeance, and the fear and hope of the remnant of Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Moses, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Christ is coming to tread the winepress of the wrath of...
Isaiah 63:1. _With dyed garments from Bozrah._ Not the Bozrah in Moab, but Bozrah, the capital of Idumea. Perhaps it was because Judas Maccabeus slaughtered twenty thousand of them in one battle, that...
_Look down from heaven_ AN APPEAL TO GOD I. GOD’S PEOPLE IN TROUBLE. II. THEIR RESOURCE. III. THEIR PLEA. Past interpositions. Past mercies. (_J. Lyth, D. D._) I. OUR FATHER’S HOUSE. OUR FATHER-...
GOD’S RELATION TO HIS PEOPLE Isaiah 63:16. _Doubtless Thou art our father, though Abraham, &c._ From thanksgiving and confession, the people betake themselves to earnest prayer for deliverance from...
SECTION IX.—THE JUDGMENT OF GOD ON IDUMAEA (Isaiah 63:1). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 63:1 A JUDGMENT ON IDUMAEA. Isaiah had already, in the first portion of his prophecy, announced" a great slaughter in the...
By Chuck Smith Now before the restoration, the day of God's wrath is coming, the Great Tribulation. This must precede it. And chapter 63, the first six verses go into the Great Tribulation period. And...
1 Chronicles 29:10; 1 Peter 1:18; Deuteronomy 32:6; Ecclesiastes 9:5; Exodus 4:22; Isaiah 41:14; Isaiah 43:14; Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 54:5;...
Abraham — He who was our father after the flesh, though he be dead, and so ignorant of our condition. Redeemer — This is urged as another argument for pity; because their Father was their Redeemer. Fr...