Isaiah 64:9
7 No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
- KJV
- Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
- WEB
- Don’t be furious, LORD. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
- ASV
- Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
- DARBY
- Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever. Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
- BLB
- Do not be angry, O YHWH, beyond measure, and do not remember [our] iniquity forever! Behold, please, look; we [are] all Your people!
- ÅB
- Herre, vær ikke så over all måte vred og kom ikke evindelig misgjerning i hu! Men tenk på at vi alle sammen er ditt folk!
- OTB
- Vær ikke overmåte vred, Herre, og husk ikke våre misgjerninger for alltid. Se, vær så snill å se, for vi er alle ditt folk.
- B1930
- Herre, vær ikke så over all måte vred og kom ikke evindelig misgjerning i hu! Men tenk på at vi alle sammen er ditt folk!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 74:1–2
Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
Read in contextPsalms 79:13
Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.
Read in contextMicah 7:18–20
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Read in contextLamentations 5:20
Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
Read in contextIsaiah 63:19
We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.
Read in contextPsalms 119:94
I am Yours; save me, for I have sought Your precepts.
Read in contextJeremiah 3:12
Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
Read in contextHabakkuk 3:2
O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!
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