Isaiah 64
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The church makes prayer that God's power may be manifested
Verse 1
WEB Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,
KJV Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence.
TSK Oh that: ps 18:7-15, ps 144:5,6, mr 1:10; that thou wouldest come: isa 63:15, ex 3:8, ex 19:11,18,19, mic 1:3,4, hab 3:1-13; that the: jud 5:4,5, ps 46:6, ps 68:8, ps 114:4-7, am 9:5,13, na 1:5,6, 2pe 3:10-12, re 20:11
Verse 2
WEB as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
KJV As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
TSK to make: isa 37:20, isa 63:12, ex 14:4, 1sa 17:46,47, 1ki 8:41-43, ps 46:10, ps 67:1,2, ps 79:10, ps 83:13, ps 98:1,2, ps 102:15,16, ps 106:8, eze 38:22,23, eze 39:27,28, da 4:1-3,32-37, da 6:25-27, joe 3:16,17; that the nations: ex 15:14-16, de 2:25, ps 9:20, ps 48:4-6, ps 99:1, jer 5:22, jer 33:9, mic 7:15-17, re 11:11-13
Verse 3
WEB When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
KJV When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
TSK thou didst: ex 34:10, de 4:34, de 10:21, jud 5:4,5, 2sa 7:23, ps 65:6, ps 66:3,5, ps 68:8, ps 76:12, ps 105:27-36, ps 106:22; the mountains: isa 64:1, hab 3:3,6
Verse 4
WEB For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.
KJV For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
TSK have not: ps 31:19, 1co 2:9,10, eph 3:5-10,17-21, col 1:26,27, 1ti 3:16, 1jo 3:1,2, 1jo 4:10, re 21:1-4,22-24, re 22:1-5; prepared: ps 31:19, mt 25:34, joh 14:3, heb 11:16; waiteth: isa 25:9, ge 49:18, ps 62:1, ps 130:5, la 3:25,26, lu 2:25, ro 8:19,23-25, 1co 1:7, 1th 1:10, jas 5:7
Verse 5
WEB You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time; and shall we be saved?
KJV 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.
TSK meetest: ex 20:24, ex 25:22, ex 29:42,43, ex 30:6, heb 4:16; rejoiceth: ps 25:10, ps 37:4, ps 112:1, ac 10:2-4,35, php 3:13-15; those that: isa 26:8,9, isa 56:1-7; thou art wroth: isa 63:10, ps 90:7-9; in those: ps 103:17, jer 31:18-20, ho 6:3, ho 11:8, mal 3:6
A confession of sin, and troubles bewailed
Verse 6
WEB For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
KJV But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
TSK are all: isa 6:5, isa 53:6, job 14:4, job 15:14-16, job 25:4, job 40:4, job 42:5,6, ps 51:5, ro 7:18,24, eph 2:1,2, tit 3:3; all our: isa 57:12, zec 3:3, php 3:9, re 3:17,18, re 7:13; we all: isa 40:6-8, ps 90:5,6, jas 1:10,11, 1pe 1:24,25; our iniquities: isa 57:13, ps 1:4, jer 4:11,12, ho 4:19, zec 5:8-11
Verse 7
WEB There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
KJV And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
TSK there is: isa 50:2, isa 59:16, ps 14:4, eze 22:30, ho 7:7,14; to take: isa 27:5, isa 56:4; hast hid: isa 57:17, isa 59:2, de 31:17, de 32:19-25, ho 5:15; consumed: jer 9:7, eze 22:18-22, eze 24:11; because: job 8:4
Verse 8
WEB But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
KJV But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
TSK thou art: isa 63:16, ex 4:22, de 32:6, ga 3:26,29; are the clay: isa 29:16, isa 45:9, jer 18:2-6, ro 9:20-24; all are: isa 43:7, isa 44:21,24, job 10:8,9, ps 100:3, ps 119:73, ps 138:8, eph 2:10
Verse 9
WEB Don’t be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, 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.
TSK wroth: ps 6:1, ps 38:1, ps 74:1,2, ps 79:5-9, jer 10:24, hab 3:2; remember: jer 3:12, la 5:20, mic 7:18-20, mal 1:4, 2pe 2:17, re 20:10; we are: isa 63:19, ps 79:13, ps 119:94
Verse 10
WEB Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
KJV Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
TSK Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.: isa 1:7, 2ki 25:9, 2ch 36:19-21, ps 79:1-7, la 1:1-4, la 2:4-8, la 5:18, da 9:26,27, da 12:7, mic 3:12, lu 21:21,24, re 11:1,2
Verse 11
WEB Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
KJV Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
TSK holy: 2ki 25:9, 2ch 36:19, ps 74:5-7, jer 52:13, la 2:7, eze 7:20,21, eze 24:21,25, mt 24:2; where: 1ki 8:14,56, 2ch 6:4, 2ch 7:3,6, 2ch 29:25-30; all our: la 1:7,10,11
Verse 12
WEB Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? Will you hold your peace, and afflict us very severely?
KJV Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
TSK Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?: isa 42:14, ps 10:1, ps 74:10,11,18,19, ps 79:5, ps 80:3,4, ps 83:1, ps 89:46-51, zec 1:12, re 6:10