Isaiah 64:9

Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
wroth	תִּקְצֹ֤ף tik.Tzof	H7107	to crack off · verb, qal jussive, 2nd person masculine singular
sore	מְאֹ֔ד me.'Od	H3966	properly · cardinal number, masculine singular absolute
LORD	יְהוָה֙ Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
remember	תִּזְכֹּ֣ר tiz.Kor	H2142	properly · verb, qal jussive, 2nd person masculine singular
iniquity	עָוֹ֑ן 'a.Von	H5771	perversity · noun, common masculine singular absolute
ever	לָעַ֖ד la.'Ad	H5703	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
see	הַבֶּט ha.bet-	H5027	to scan · verb, hiphil imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
people	עַמְּךָ֥ 'a.me.Kha	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular

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

Psalms 74:1-2 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalms 79:13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
Micah 7:18-20 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his…
Psalms 6:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Psalms 38:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Psalms 79:5-9 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 119:94 I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 64:6–end

As we have the Lamentations of Jeremiah, so here we have the Lamentations of Isaiah; the subject of both is the same - the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans and the sin of Israel that brought that destruction - only with this difference, Isaiah sees it at a distance and laments it by the Spirit of prophecy, Jeremiah saw it accomplished. In these verses, I. The people of God in their affliction confess and bewail their sins, thereby justifying God in their afflictions, owning themselves unworthy of his mercy, and thereby both improving their troubles and preparing for deliverance. Now that they were under divine rebukes for sin they had nothing to trust to but the mere mercy of God an…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 64:9

(Psa 74:1-2). we are . . . thy people-- (Jer 14:9, Jer 14:21).

Adam Clarke on Isaiah 64:9

Neither remember iniquity - For לעד תזכר laad tizcor, one of my MSS. has לעד תקצף laad tiktsoph, "be not angry," as in the preceding clause. This has been partially obliterated, and תזכר tizcor, written in the margin by a later hand: but this MS. abounds with words of this kind, all altered by later hands.

John Gill on Isaiah 64:9

Be not wroth very sore, O Lord,.... They knew not how to deprecate the displeasure of God entirely; having sinned so greatly against him, they were sensible they deserved his wrath; but entreat it might not be hot and very vehement, and carried to the highest pitch, which would be intolerable: neither remember iniquity for ever; to afflict and punish for it, but forgive it, for not to remember sin is to forgive it; and not inflict the deserved punishment of it, but take off and remove the effects of divine displeasure, which as yet continued, and had a long time, as this petition suggests; and therefore suits better with the present long captivity of the Jews than their seventy years' capti…

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The Church Fathers

They entreat God insistently concerning his removal from friendship with them. Since they had come to this situation through their many sins, they wove their prayers with great skill. For since they are unable to mollify the one who could save them with their own works and blameless lives, they now take another route. They ask him as the creator of his own work to be reasonable and sparing with those who were brought into being and life by him.… "We are not unaware that we have offended you; we confess that we showed ourselves to deserve judgment and acted savagely towards the Son."
— Cyril of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 5:6.64:8-9

The Lord gives to each person according to his deeds; against those who sin greatly and often he is very angry indeed, but he is angry in a mild way against those who do wrong in a few things and only for a short time. He has also said concerning the instruments of his wrath that are his punishments, "I was not all that angry, but they insisted on doing evil." And they who charge themselves with transgressions make a loud cry to the merciful and compassionate Lord, "Do not be exceedingly angry with us." For as he "judges with justice, strength and magnanimity, without extending his wrath from day to day," he moderates his anger against those he judges, not counting up all their faults.
— Didymus the Blind, COMMENTARY ON ZECHARIAH 2:192

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Dictionary and topics

Wailing-place, Jews’ — A section of the western wall of the temple area, where the Jews assemble every Friday afternoon to bewail their desolate condition (Ps. 79:1, 4, 5). The stones in this part of the wall are of great…
Affliction, Prayer Under · For deliverance — For deliverance
Anger Of God, The · To be deprecated — To be deprecated

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 64:9

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 64:6–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 64:9

Adam Clarke on Isaiah 64:9

John Gill on Isaiah 64:9

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Isaiah 64:9

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 64:6–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 64:9

Adam Clarke on Isaiah 64:9

John Gill on Isaiah 64:9

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Isaiah 64:9

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 64:9–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 64:8

Rashi on Isaiah 64:6