Isaiah 64:8

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Isaiah 64:5-12

An Appeal to Jehovah to Forsake His Wrath v. 5. Thou meetest, in a friendly and kindly manner, him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, happy in observing the covenant faithfulness, those that remember Thee in Thy ways, doing His will with joyful willingness. Behold, Thou art wroth, He became angry, for we have sinned. In those is continuance, the persistence in sin being a punishment in itself, and we shall be saved, or, "how could we have been saved?" The people having hardened... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 64:1-12

3. PRAYER THAT THE LORD WOULD VISIBLY INTERVENE, AND SO PROVE HIMSELF TO BE, AS OF OLD, THE GOD AND FATHERr OF ISRAELIsaiah 63:19 b to Isaiah 64:11. (Isaiah 64:1-12)Chap Isaiah 63:19 b. Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens,That thou wouldest come down,That the mountains might flow down at thy presence,Chap Isaiah 64:1 As when 17 18the 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... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 64:1-12

a Cry for Pardon Isaiah 64:1-12 The great past , Isaiah 64:1-5 . We are introduced to the prophet’s oratory and hear the outpourings of his heart. As he recalls the story of bygone days, he asks that God would do as He had done. It is as easy for God to rend the heavens as for us to tear a piece of cloth: and great mountains of difficulty dissolve before Him, as a pyramid of snow in a thaw. God works while we wait. When there is no sign of His help, He is hastening toward us. If you go out... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 64:1-12

The praise and confession merge into a prayer in which the sore need of the people is first described, and then a cry full of intense anguish is lifted for the dawning of the day when Jehovah will act in judgment. Again the prophet strengthens his own faith as he remembers how God had wrought on behalf of His people in the past. This memory of His faithfulness produces a new sense of their unfaithfulness, and he confesses sin and failure. Out of the midst of desolation and destruction he... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 64:1-12

The Response of Jacob Through Isaiah (Isaiah 63:7 to Isaiah 64:12 ). In response to the glory and fierceness of the One Who is coming Isaiah, fearfully aware of what the future might hold, especially in the light of the revelations given to him, and knowing the spiritual condition of his own people, brings God into remembrance of what He has done for His people in the past. He draws out how He has chosen them and through them brought great glory to His name, and then pleads for Him to act... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 64:8-12

Isaiah Pleads For Yahweh To Exercise His Sovereignty On Their Behalf (Isaiah 64:8-12 ). Isaiah 64:8 ‘But now O Yahweh, you are our father, We are the clay and you are the potter, And we are all the work of your hand.’ Here lies Isaiah’s hope. That Yahweh has proclaimed Himself their Father (see on Isaiah 63:16). He has set His choice on them (Deuteronomy 7:7-8). And while they are but clay He is the Potter. Thus He can shape them into what He will. The declaration of the sovereignty of God is... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 64:1-9

Isaiah 63:15 to Isaiah 64:9 . A Fervent Prayer to Yahweh to Intervene again for His Children.— The appeal rings like a litany, reminding Yahweh, who has withdrawn into His glorious heavenly palace, of His former compassion. To Abraham and Israel appeal has been made in vain (some approach to ancestor-worship seems to have been prevalent), but Yahweh is their father and redeemer. His severity has sent them wandering even further away, and hardened their heart so that they cannot “ fear Him,” ... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:8

But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; an argument or pathetical plea for pity; or, Notwithstanding all this, thou art our Father, both by creation and by adoption, therefore pity us thy children. We are the clay; a metonymy of the matter, clay for the vessels made of clay; or, we are clay, pointing at our original matter; or it may relate to their state, that God framed them in a body civil and ecclesiastical, out of a confused multitude; they plead at the same time their own frailty, why they... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 64:8

Isaiah 64:8 ; Isaiah 33:22 God is related to each of us both as a Father and a King. The idea of a Father contains more prominently the sentiment of bountiful and tender cherishing, while that of a King contains more prominently that of regulation and control; and it is not till we have combined them that we can form an adequate conception of the relation in which He stands to us. I. We should give the idea of God's Fatherhood the first place in our meditations on His character, and not only... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Isaiah 64:8

our father Here the reference is to relationship through creation, rather than through faith, as in Acts 17:28; Acts 17:29. (See Scofield "Acts 17:29- :") . read more

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