Isaiah 64:8

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 64:1-12

Chapter 64Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, and that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, and makes thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! When you did awesome things which we looked not for, you came down, and the mountains flowed down at thy presence. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 64:1-12

Isaiah 64:1 . A new scene of prophetic events opens here, where the prophet in time of trouble cries the more in spirit to the Messiah. Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens and come down. It is strikingly observable, that the promises of the Saviour’s coming were desired and renewed in times of affliction, and in war. Isaiah 7:9. Micah 4:5. Job 19:20-25. In Psalms 85:0. it is promised that righteousness shall look down from heaven, and truth shall spring out of the earth. So also in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 64:6-8

Isaiah 64:6-8But we are all as an unclean thingIsrael’s uncleanness“And we are all become as one unclean”--in a ceremonial sense, like the leper.(Prof. Skinner, D. D.)Lamentations of IsaiahYou have read some of the lamentations of Jeremiah; here is one of the lamentations of Isaiah. (C. H. Spurgeon.)The Church’s complaint and confidenceI. A HUMBLE CONFESSION OF SIN. 1. Of the sins of their nature, of their persons themselves. “We are all as an unclean thing.” 2. Of the sins of actions. “All our... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 64:8

Isaiah 64:8But now, O Lord, Thou art our FatherGod our King-Father(“Our Lord, Thou art our Father” with “the Lord is our King,” Isaiah 33:22).That conviction of a living God, as distinguished from the lifeless one, which is all that many have, made up of a mere bundle of catechetical doctrines, will create a demand for many other convictions besides. For, mark what question presses, so soon as God has been revealed to the soul; it is the deeply self-interested one, In what relation, or... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 64:8

Isa 64:8 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. Ver. 8. But now, O Lord, thou art our father. ] Or, Yet now, O Lord, thou art our father; therefore "we shall not die," say they, Heb 1:12 boldly, but warrantably. See on Isaiah 63:16 . We are the clay, and thou art our potter. ] This was grown to a proverb among the heathens also, Kεραμος ο ανθρωπος , Man is a clod of clay; πηλος κομψως πεφυραμενος , A piece of clay... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 64:8

thou art: Isaiah 63:16, Exodus 4:22, Deuteronomy 32:6, Galatians 3:26, Galatians 3:29 are the clay: Isaiah 29:16, Isaiah 45:9, Jeremiah 18:2-Joshua :, Romans 9:20-Jeremiah : all are: Isaiah 43:7, Isaiah 44:21, Isaiah 44:24, Job 10:8, Job 10:9, Psalms 100:3, Psalms 119:73, Psalms 138:8, Ephesians 2:10 Reciprocal: Genesis 1:26 - Let us Genesis 2:7 - formed man Genesis 18:27 - dust Job 10:3 - the work Psalms 33:15 - fashioneth Psalms 119:94 - I am thine Jeremiah 3:19 - Thou shalt Jeremiah 18:6... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 64:8

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.Our father — Notwithstanding all this thou art our father both by creation, and by adoption, therefore pity us thy children. read more

Daniel Whedon

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

THE LAST CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL, Isaiah 63:7 to Isaiah 65:25. Israel’s former Mercies and Sins. There are various schemes of division of the matter now following. The one here adopted as best, is that of two well-defined sections, namely, The Last Controversy of Israel, with subdivisions as the topics vary, (Isaiah 63:7 to Isaiah 65:25,) and The Full Redemption of Zion, comprising chapter 66. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 64:8

8. Thou art our Father To the very few thou art the spiritual Father. The confession here reaches the point when God accepts, and becomes a heavenly Father. Clay In the hands of God, as moulder, are all penitent men when God does accept, and then he forms them by discipline to the character they should have. God works creatively and renewingly in and upon all who will let him. To choose is our work. He chooses not for us. We yield our rebellion. He does not this for us; but if we... read more

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