Isaiah 64
About Isaiah Isaiah warns of judgment and promises comfort, a coming king, a suffering servant and a new creation.
1Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,SelectedIsaiah 64:1Ask
2As 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!SelectedIsaiah 64:2Ask
3When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.SelectedIsaiah 64:3Ask
4For 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.SelectedIsaiah 64:4Ask
5Thou 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.SelectedIsaiah 64:5Ask
6But 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.SelectedIsaiah 64:6Ask
7And 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.SelectedIsaiah 64:7Ask
8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.SelectedIsaiah 64:8Ask
9Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.SelectedIsaiah 64:9Ask
10Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.SelectedIsaiah 64:10Ask
11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.SelectedIsaiah 64:11Ask
12Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?SelectedIsaiah 64:12Ask
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