Don’t be furious, Yahweh. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
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Don’t be furious, Yahweh. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
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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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(64-8) Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever; behold, look, we beseech Thee, we are all Thy people.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 64:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 74:1-2 God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
- Psalms 79:13 So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
- Micah 7:18-20 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness. He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
- Psalms 6:1 Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.
- Psalms 38:1 Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
- Psalms 79:5-9 How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland. Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need. Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
- Psalms 119:94 I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
- Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
- Isaiah 57:17 I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
- Isaiah 60:10 “Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
- Isaiah 63:19 We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.
- Jeremiah 3:12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
- Jeremiah 10:24 Yahweh, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.
- Lamentations 5:20 Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
- Habakkuk 3:2 Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
- Malachi 1:4 Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”
- 2 Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
- Revelation 20:10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain For so the flesh judgeth when God doth not…
For so the flesh judgeth when God doth not immediately send succor.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 64:9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD,…
Isa 64:9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people.
Ver. 9. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord.]]Neither overly much nor overly long, but "spare us, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him." This is commended for the best line in all Terence -
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“ Pro peccato magno paululum supplicii satis est Patri. ”
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember…
Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever, viz. Thou hast been angry with us a long time, be not so for ever; but deal with us as may best consist with a father’s bowels. It hath reference both to quantity and time, that it might not be very great, nor of long durance. See on Psa 79:8.
We are all thy people, thy peculiar people, Isa 28:9. Though we are very bad in ourselves, and very badly handled by our enemies, thou sufferest in our sufferings, for thou hast not people in covenant but us, and wilt thou not leave thyself a people in the world?
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Be not wroth very sore, O Lord,.... They knew…
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' captivity in Babylon.
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Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people; look upon all our troubles and distresses, and upon us under them, with an eye of pity and compassion; and consider that we are thy people, not only by creation, but by covenant and profession; even everyone of us; or we are all the people thou hast, the Jews looking upon themselves to be the special and peculiar people of God, and the Gentiles as having no claim to such a relation; this is the pure spirit of Judaism. The Targum is,
"lo, it is manifest before thee that we are all of us thy people.''
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Thy people - Thou hast no people in covenant…
Thy people - Thou hast no people in covenant but us, and wilt thou not leave thyself a people in the world?
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 9. Neither remember iniquity] For לעד תזכר laad…
Verse 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.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain (Psa 74:1-2).
(Psa 74:1-2).
we are . . . thy people-- (Jer 14:9, Jer 14:21).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. Be not wroth very sore — That is,…
9. Be not wroth very sore — That is, mitigate thy wrath, deserved by us as a nation.
We are all thy people — The idea national merges into the idea spiritual. All adhering to, and now praying to, him, are the spiritual Israel; and the prayer is, “Because we adhere and pray to thee, spare us!”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. neither remember iniquity for ever] Psa_79:8. The nation…
9. neither remember iniquity for ever] Psa_79:8. The nation feels that it is bearing the inexhaustible penalty of past sins. Such a thought was specially natural after the Restoration, when it appeared as if even the immeasurable calamity of the Exile had not wiped out the arrears of hereditary guilt (cf. Zec_1:12).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Be not wroth very sore. At the time of…
Be not wroth very sore. At the time of the Captivity God was wroth very sore. (Lam_5:22) His auger was hot against the sheep of his pasture. (Psa_74:1) But they had suffered, they had been afflicted many years. Might he not now relent, and remit somewhat from his fierce anger? Neither remember iniquity. (comp. Psa_79:8) God had already made a promise by the mouth of Isaiah, "I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy trangressions, and will not remember thy sins". (Isa_43:25) The captives lay hold, as it were, on this promise, and entreat that their "iniquity" may be not only forgiven, but forgotten. (Jer_31:34) We are all thy people. A fresh argument. "We are thy children," individually (ver. 8); "we are thy work, thy creatures" (ver. 8), again individually; but also, "we are all of us (kullanu), collectively, thy people the people whom thou hast chosen to thyself, and over whom thou hast watched for so many centuries. Surely this consideration, if no other, will induce thee to forego thy wrath and forgive our iniquity.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Be not wroth very sore, O Lord
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Be not wroth very sore, O Lord
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Gods wrath deprecated
I.
THE EVIL DEPRECATED. Gods anger.
1. Merited.
2. Acknowledged.
II. THE TERMS IN WHICH IT IS DEPRECATED.
1. Imply the justice of Gods procedure.
2. Beseech a limitation of its severity.
III. THE PLEA BY WHICH IT IS DEPRECATED.
1. Humble.
2. Confident.
3. Founded on Gods covenant relation to His people. (Homiletic Commentary.)
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