2 Kings 25:9(vv10–11)He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
Psalms 74:5-7(v11)They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees. Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.…
2 Chronicles 36:19(v11)They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable…
Isaiah 1:7(v10)Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as overthrown…
Isaiah 42:14(v12)“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and…
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Lamentations 1:7(v11)Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her…
Lamentations 1:10-11(v11)The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things; for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary,…
Psalms 74:10-11(v12)How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever? Why do you draw back your hand, even your right…
Jeremiah 52:13(v11)He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
Lamentations 2:7(v11)The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have…
Ezekiel 24:21(v11)‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your…
Psalms 74:1-2(v9)God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? Remember your congregation, which you…
Psalms 74:18-19(v12)Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name. Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild…
Psalms 79:13(v9)So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
Psalms 83:1(v12)God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
Micah 7:18-20(v9)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…
Zechariah 1:12(v12)Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which…
Luke 21:24(v10)They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles,…
1 Kings 8:14(v11)The king turned his face around, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood.
1 Kings 8:56(v11)“Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his…
2 Chronicles 6:4(v11)He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying,
2 Chronicles 7:3(v11)All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and Yahweh’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces…
2 Chronicles 7:6(v11)The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to…
2 Chronicles 29:25-30(v11)He set the Levites in Yahweh’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad…
2 Chronicles 36:19-21(v10)They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable…
Psalms 6:1(v9)Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.
Psalms 10:1(v12)Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
Psalms 38:1(v9)Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
Psalms 79:1-7(v10)God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. They have given…
Psalms 79:5(v12)How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 79:5-9(v9)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…
Psalms 80:3-4(v12)Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of…
Psalms 89:46-51(v12)How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire? Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have…
Psalms 119:94(v9)I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
Isaiah 43:25(v9)I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 57:17(v9)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…
Isaiah 60:10(v9)“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(v9)We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.
Jeremiah 3:12(v9)Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you;…
Jeremiah 10:24(v9)Yahweh, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.
Lamentations 1:1-4(v10)How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess…
Lamentations 2:4-8(v10)He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the…
Lamentations 5:18(v10)For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
Lamentations 5:20(v9)Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
Ezekiel 7:20-21(v11)As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things…
Ezekiel 24:25(v11)“You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and…
Daniel 9:26-27(v10)After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city…
Daniel 12:7(v10)I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and…
Micah 3:12(v10)Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like…
Habakkuk 3:2(v9)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…
Malachi 1:4(v9)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…
Matthew 24:2(v11)But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another,…
2 Peter 2:17(v9)These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
Revelation 6:10(v12)They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the…
Revelation 11:1-2(v10)A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. Leave out the…
Revelation 20:10(v9)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…
Luke 21:21(v10)Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who are in the country not…
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Geneva Bible translators1599 · Public DomainOn vv9–12For so the flesh judgeth when God doth not…
For so the flesh judgeth when God doth not immediately send succor.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp1656 · Public DomainOn vv9–12Isa 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 Poole1685 · Public DomainOn vv9–12Be 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?
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill1763 · Public DomainOn vv9–12Be 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 Wesley1765 · Public DomainOn vv9, 11, 12Thy 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 Clarke1810 · Public DomainOn v9Verse 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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Joseph Benson1811 · Public DomainOn v10Isa 64:10-12. Thy holy cities — Zion and Jerusalem,…
Isa 64:10-12. Thy holy cities — Zion and Jerusalem, mentioned immediately after; or other cities also in the land of Judea besides these two; called holy, because God had his synagogues in them, in which he was worshipped, Psa 74:8. Zion is a wilderness, &c. — Utterly waste: not only the ordinary cities, but Zion and Jerusalem themselves are in a state of ruin and desolation. Our holy and beautiful house — Our temple. Not only our principal cities, but even our temple, which we thought sacred and inviolable, in which we gloried, because it was thine, and our fathers’ house, and ours: the place where thy holy service was performed, and thy glory and presence were wont to be manifested. Where our fathers praised thee — They do not presume to mention themselves, having been every way so very abominable; but put the Lord in mind of their fathers, many of whom were his faithful servants, having praised him there. Is burned up with fire — This relates to the burning of the temple by the Romans, who made an entire destruction of it, according to our Saviour’s prediction, Mat 24:2. And all our pleasant things are laid waste — Not only the pleasant land, but all that was magnificent, ornamental, or desirable in Jerusalem, or any other city, town, or place. Wilt thou refrain, or, contain, thyself for, or, at, these things — Wilt thou behold them unmoved, as an indifferent spectator? Wilt thou neither show thy compassion toward thy servants, nor thy resentment toward thine enemies? Wilt thou hold thy peace — Wilt thou be as one that regards not? And afflict us very sore — And persist to afflict us in thy continued hot displeasure?
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Albert Barnes1834 · Public DomainOn vv10–12Thy holy cities are a wilderness - It is…
Thy holy cities are a wilderness - It is to be remembered that this is supposed to be spoken near the close of the exile in Babylon. In accordance with the usual custom in this book, Isaiah throws himself forward by prophetic anticipation into that future period, and describes the scene as if it were passing before his eyes (see the Introduction, Section 7). He uses language such as the exiles would use; he puts arguments into their mouths which it would be proper for them to use; he describes the feelings which they would then have. The phrase, ‘thy holy cities,’ may either mean the cities of the holy land - which belonged to God, and were ‘holy,’ as they pertained to his people; or it may mean, as many critics have supposed, the different parts of Jerusalem. A part of Jerusalem was built on Mount Zion, and was called the ‘upper city,’ in contradistinction from that built on Mount Acra, which was called the ‘lower city.’ But I think it more probable that the prophet refers to the cities throughout the land that were laid waste.
Are a wilderness - They were uninhabited, and were lying in ruins.
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Zion is a wilderness - On the name ‘Zion,’ see the notes at Isa 1:8. The idea here is, that Jerusalem was laid waste. Its temple was burned; its palaces destroyed; its houses uninhabited. This is to be regarded as being uttered at the close of the exile, after Jerusalem had been lying in ruins for seventy years - a time during which any forsaken city would be in a condition which might not improperly be called a desert. When Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem, he burned the temple, broke down the wall, and consumed all the palaces with fire (2Ch 36:19). We have only to conceive what must have been the state of the city seventy years after this, to see the force of the description here.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary1859 · Public DomainOn v10Desolate, under Antiochus Epiphanes, 1 Machabees i. 31., and…
Desolate, under Antiochus Epiphanes, 1 Machabees i. 31., and iv. 38. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown1871 · Public DomainOn vv9–12(Psa 74:1-2).
(Psa 74:1-2).
we are . . . thy people-- (Jer 14:9, Jer 14:21).
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Daniel D. Whedon1874 · Public DomainOn vv9, 10, 129. 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 Colleges1878 · Public DomainOn vv9–129. 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers1878 · Public DomainOn vv10–12(10) Thy holy cities . . .—There is no…
(10) Thy holy cities . . .—There is no other instance of the plural, and this probably led the LXX. and Vulg. to substitute the singular. It probably rests on the thought that the whole land was holy (Zec_2:12), and that this attribute extended, therefore, to all its cities, especially to those which were connected with historical memories. Possibly, however, Zion and Jerusalem—the former identified with the Temple, the latter with the people of Jehovah—are thought of as two distinct cities, locally united. The “wilderness” is, as elsewhere, rather open pasture-land than a sandy desert.
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The Pulpit Commentary1880 · Public DomainOn vv9–12Be 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 Illustrator1887 · Public DomainOn vv9, 11, 12Be not wroth very sore, O Lord
Isa_64:9
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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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unfoldingWord translationNotes2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0On v10General Information:
General Information:
The people of Israel continue speaking to Yahweh.
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Your holy cities have become a wilderness
This emphasizes that the cities have been destroyed and no one lives there.
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised you, has been destroyed by fire
This can be stated in active form. AT: "The enemy has destroyed our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised you, by fire" (See: Active or Passive)
How can you still hold back, Yahweh? How can you remain silent and continue to humiliate us?
They use questions to express their frustration because God has not yet come to help them. AT: "Please do not hold back, Yahweh! Please do not remain silent and continue to humiliate us!" (See: Rhetorical Question)
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv9–12 For so the flesh judgeth when God doth not…
For so the flesh judgeth when God doth not immediately send succor.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv9–12 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 On vv9–12 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?
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv9–12 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 On vv9, 11, 12 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 On v9 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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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v10 Isa 64:10-12. Thy holy cities — Zion and Jerusalem,…
Isa 64:10-12. Thy holy cities — Zion and Jerusalem, mentioned immediately after; or other cities also in the land of Judea besides these two; called holy, because God had his synagogues in them, in which he was worshipped, Psa 74:8. Zion is a wilderness, &c. — Utterly waste: not only the ordinary cities, but Zion and Jerusalem themselves are in a state of ruin and desolation. Our holy and beautiful house — Our temple. Not only our principal cities, but even our temple, which we thought sacred and inviolable, in which we gloried, because it was thine, and our fathers’ house, and ours: the place where thy holy service was performed, and thy glory and presence were wont to be manifested. Where our fathers praised thee — They do not presume to mention themselves, having been every way so very abominable; but put the Lord in mind of their fathers, many of whom were his faithful servants, having praised him there. Is burned up with fire — This relates to the burning of the temple by the Romans, who made an entire destruction of it, according to our Saviour’s prediction, Mat 24:2. And all our pleasant things are laid waste — Not only the pleasant land, but all that was magnificent, ornamental, or desirable in Jerusalem, or any other city, town, or place. Wilt thou refrain, or, contain, thyself for, or, at, these things — Wilt thou behold them unmoved, as an indifferent spectator? Wilt thou neither show thy compassion toward thy servants, nor thy resentment toward thine enemies? Wilt thou hold thy peace — Wilt thou be as one that regards not? And afflict us very sore — And persist to afflict us in thy continued hot displeasure?
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv10–12 Thy holy cities are a wilderness - It is…
Thy holy cities are a wilderness - It is to be remembered that this is supposed to be spoken near the close of the exile in Babylon. In accordance with the usual custom in this book, Isaiah throws himself forward by prophetic anticipation into that future period, and describes the scene as if it were passing before his eyes (see the Introduction, Section 7). He uses language such as the exiles would use; he puts arguments into their mouths which it would be proper for them to use; he describes the feelings which they would then have. The phrase, ‘thy holy cities,’ may either mean the cities of the holy land - which belonged to God, and were ‘holy,’ as they pertained to his people; or it may mean, as many critics have supposed, the different parts of Jerusalem. A part of Jerusalem was built on Mount Zion, and was called the ‘upper city,’ in contradistinction from that built on Mount Acra, which was called the ‘lower city.’ But I think it more probable that the prophet refers to the cities throughout the land that were laid waste.
Are a wilderness - They were uninhabited, and were lying in ruins.
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Zion is a wilderness - On the name ‘Zion,’ see the notes at Isa 1:8. The idea here is, that Jerusalem was laid waste. Its temple was burned; its palaces destroyed; its houses uninhabited. This is to be regarded as being uttered at the close of the exile, after Jerusalem had been lying in ruins for seventy years - a time during which any forsaken city would be in a condition which might not improperly be called a desert. When Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem, he burned the temple, broke down the wall, and consumed all the palaces with fire (2Ch 36:19). We have only to conceive what must have been the state of the city seventy years after this, to see the force of the description here.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v10 Desolate, under Antiochus Epiphanes, 1 Machabees i. 31., and…
Desolate, under Antiochus Epiphanes, 1 Machabees i. 31., and iv. 38. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv9–12 (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 On vv9, 10, 12 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 On vv9–12 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv10–12 (10) Thy holy cities . . .—There is no…
(10) Thy holy cities . . .—There is no other instance of the plural, and this probably led the LXX. and Vulg. to substitute the singular. It probably rests on the thought that the whole land was holy (Zec_2:12), and that this attribute extended, therefore, to all its cities, especially to those which were connected with historical memories. Possibly, however, Zion and Jerusalem—the former identified with the Temple, the latter with the people of Jehovah—are thought of as two distinct cities, locally united. The “wilderness” is, as elsewhere, rather open pasture-land than a sandy desert.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv9–12 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 On vv9, 11, 12 Be not wroth very sore, O Lord
Isa_64:9
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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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v10 General Information:
General Information:
The people of Israel continue speaking to Yahweh.
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Your holy cities have become a wilderness
This emphasizes that the cities have been destroyed and no one lives there.
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised you, has been destroyed by fire
This can be stated in active form. AT: "The enemy has destroyed our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised you, by fire" (See: Active or Passive)
How can you still hold back, Yahweh? How can you remain silent and continue to humiliate us?
They use questions to express their frustration because God has not yet come to help them. AT: "Please do not hold back, Yahweh! Please do not remain silent and continue to humiliate us!" (See: Rhetorical Question)
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holy
desert
Zion
Jerusalem
desolate
temple
ancestor
praise
ruin
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v10 64:10 holy cities: All the cities of Judah were…
64:10 holy cities: All the cities of Judah were considered holy to God. However, the Temple in the host city of Jerusalem was the most holy place.
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