Isaiah 64:5

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
meetest	פָּגַ֤עְתָּ pa.Ga'.ta	H6293	to impinge · verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular
rejoiceth	שָׂשׂ֙ sas	H7797	to be bright · verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
worketh	וְעֹ֣שֵׂה ve.'O.seh	H6213	to do or make · conjunction + verb, qal active participle, masculine singular construct
righteousness	צֶ֔דֶק Tze.dek	H6664	the right (natural · noun, common masculine singular absolute
remember	יִזְכְּר֑וּךָ yiz.ke.Ru.kha	H2142	properly · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
ways	בִּדְרָכֶ֖יךָ bid.ra.Khei.kha	H1870	a road (as trodden) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
wroth	קָצַ֙פְתָּ֙ ka.Tzaf.ta	H7107	to crack off · verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular
sinned	וַֽנֶּחֱטָ֔א va.ne.che.Ta'	H2398	properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 1st person common plural
continuance	עוֹלָ֖ם o.Lam	H5769	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
saved	וְנִוָּשֵֽׁעַ ve.ni.va.She.a'	H3467	properly · conjunction + verb, niphal, 1st person common plural

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Acts 10:35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Philippians 3:13-15 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto…
Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Exodus 20:24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine ox…
Exodus 25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the a…
Exodus 29:42-43 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: wher…
Exodus 30:6 And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will me…
Psalms 25:10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 64:1-5

Here, I. The petition is that God would appear wonderfully for them now, Isa 64:1, Isa 64:2. Their case was represented in the close of the foregoing chapter as very sad and very hard, and in this case it was time to cry, "Help, Lord; O that God would manifest his zeal and his strength!" They had prayed (Isa 63:15) that God would look down from heaven; here they pray that he would come down to deliver them, as he had said, Exo 3:8. 1. They desire that God would in his providence manifest himself both to them and for them. When God works some extraordinary deliverance for his people he is said to shine forth, to show himself strong; so, here, they pray that he would rend the heavens and come…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 64:5

meetest--that is, Thou makest peace, or enterest into covenant with him (see on Isa 47:3). rejoiceth and worketh--that is, who with joyful willingness worketh [GESENIUS] (Act 10:35; Joh 7:17). those--Thou meetest "those," in apposition to "him" who represents a class whose characteristics "those that," &c., more fully describes. remember thee in thy ways-- (Isa 26:8). sinned--literally, "tripped," carrying on the figure in "ways." in those is continuance--a plea to deprecate the continuance of God's wrath; it is not in Thy wrath that there is continuance (Isa 54:7-8; Psa 30:5; Psa 103:9), but in Thy ways ("those"), namely, of covenant mercy to Thy people (Mic 7:18-20; Mal 3:6); on…

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Adam Clarke on Isaiah 64:5

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness "Thou meetest with joy those who work righteousness" - The Syriac reads פוגע אתה שש בעשי poga attah shesh baashi, as above. In those is continuance, and we shall be saved "Because of our deeds, for we have been rebellious" - בהם עולם ונושע bahem olam venivvashea. I am fully persuaded that these words as they stand in the present Hebrew text are utterly unintelligible; there is no doubt of the meaning of each word separately; but put together they make no sense at all. I conclude, therefore, that the copy has suffered by mistakes of transcribers in this place. The corruption is of long standing, for the ancient interpreters were as muc…

The Church Fathers

"You were angry, and we sinned." This is a sentence with reversed terms, that is, since we have sinned, you were angry and had us deported; and this is analogous to the words "and they made his grave with the wicked." "Some day we will be saved." With the same mercy through which you saved us once from Egypt, we will be saved from Babylon as well.
— Ishodad of Merv, COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 64:5

A disorder of priorities. Not because you are angry, we have sinned; but because we have sinned, you are angry. And because we have sinned, you are angry with us, O Lord: therefore we have gone astray and have left the right path. Whether according to the Hebrew, who we have always been in sins, we shall be saved only by your mercy, who we are defiled through ourselves.
— Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah

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Dictionary and topics

Afflicted Saints · Should acknowledge the justice of their chastisements — Should acknowledge the justice of their chastisements
Confession Of Sin · Should be accompanied with: Self-abasement — Should be accompanied with: Self-abasement

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Isaiah 64:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 64:1-5

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 64:5

Adam Clarke on Isaiah 64:5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Isaiah 64:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 64:1-5

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 64:5

Adam Clarke on Isaiah 64:5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Isaiah 64:5

John Calvin on Isaiah 64:5

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 64:5

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 64:5-6

Rashi on Isaiah 64:5