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Isaiah 64:12

Wilt Thou refrain Thyself for these things, O Lord? holding back from coming to the assistance of His people. Wilt Thou hold Thy peace and afflict us very sore? continuing the act of humiliating His people to the very limit. We have here a powerful appeal to the boundless mercy of the Lord, together with the firm confidence that He will not let destruction overtake His people. Even so the believers of all times trust in the covenant mercy of Jehovah and appeal to His fatherly love in all their prayers.

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See also Isaiah 64:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WILT THOU REFRAIN THYSELF - Wilt thou refuse to come to our aid? Wilt thou decline to visit us, and save us from our calamities? WILT THOU HOLD THY PEACE - Wilt thou not speak for our rescue, and comm...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 63:7-19-64:12 The Great Intercessory Prayer 1. _Jehovah's loving kindness and power in the past remembered (Isaiah 63:7) _ 2. _Their deepest need (Isaiah 63:15) _ 3. The cry of faith, Thou ar...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    These verses, which describe the Temple as not merely desecrated but actually burned, seem to be a late addition from a period of which we have no exact information. The cities of the holy land are b...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    REFRAIN THYSELF: i.e. refuse to give way in compassion, &c. Compare Genesis 43:1; Genesis 45:1.Genesis 42:14. Gen 63:15....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _refrain thyself_ See ch. Isaiah 63:15....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The prayer now ends in a direct and touching supplication, supported by various pleas, that Jehovah will at last cause His wrath against His people to cease....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 63:7 to Isaiah 64:12. A Prayer of the People for the Renewal of Jehovah's former Lovingkindness (1) Isaiah 63:7. The prayer begins with thankful commemoration of Jehovah's goodness to the nati...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WILT THOU REFRAIN— _Wilt thou contain thyself at these things, O_ JEHOVAH? &c. Lowth. REFLECTIONS.—1st, We have here, 1. The church's request, desiring some glorious manifestation, as in the days of...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    5. PLEA FOR VERIFICATION TEXT: Isaiah 64:8-12 8 But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. 9 Be not wroth very sore, O Jeh...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? WILT THOU REFRAIN THYSELF FOR THESE (THINGS), O LORD? - Wilt thou, notwithstanding these cal...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-3. The imagery is taken from the account of the divine manifestation at Sinai (Exodus 19:18)....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    REFRAIN THYSELF] i.e. refuse to give way to natural tenderness (Genesis 45:1)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God has promised to replace all that enemies have destroyed. The *Lord’s people believe that he performs all his promises in the end. But they cannot understand why such a long delay continues (see Is...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 64 This chapter continues the people’s desperate prayer, which began at...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WILT THOU REFRAIN...? — The final appeal to the fatherly compassion of Jehovah reminds us of the scene when Joseph could not “refrain” (Genesis 45:1), and natural tenderness would find a vent. Could t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Isaiah 64:11]_ הַ עַל ־אֵ֥לֶּה תִתְאַפַּ֖ק יְהוָ֑ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Wilt thou restrain thyself (n) for these [things], O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and grievously afflict us? (n) That is, at the contempt of your own glory? Though our sins have deserved this, yet...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER! let us learn from this Chapter, how we are to pray, and what we are to pray for. Surely, the Holy Ghost hath caused this prayer of the Church; which he awakened by his grace, to b...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How beautiful is the connection between the opening and close of this prayer, and indeed the whole, of the Chapter from beginning to end! Surely, every faithful follower of the Lord Jesus, who knows h...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    12._Wilt thou restrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? _The people strengthen themselves by assured confidence, that God will not permit his glory to be trampled under foot, though men provoke hi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65. The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace, had been so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WILT THOU REFRAIN THYSELF FOR THESE THINGS, O LORD?.... From delivering us out of our troubles and miseries, and taking vengeance on our enemies, and showing thy zeal for thine own glory; or, as Kimch...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Wilt thou refrain thyself for these [things], O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? Ver. 12. _Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things?_] Or, Canst thou contain thyself at the...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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 w...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-12 The people of God, in affliction, confess and bewail their sins, owning themselves unworthy of his mercy. Sin is that abominable thing which the Lord hates. Our deeds, whatever they may seem to...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WILT THOU REFRAIN THYSELF FOR THESE THINGS, viz. that are done by the Babylonians? do none of these things move thee to take vengeance on them? WILT THOU HOLD THY PEACE; wilt thou be as one that regar...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 64:12 restrain H662 (H8691) LORD H3068 peace H2814 (H8799) afflict H6031 (H8762) severely H3966...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH PLEADS FOR YAHWEH TO EXERCISE HIS SOVEREIGNTY ON THEIR BEHALF (ISAIAH 64:8). 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 wo...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 64:1. _Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, as when the melting fire burneth,_ Or, much better, «as when th...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Fear and hope of remnant of Israel in day of vengeance. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: The remnant of Israel in the day of Christ's vengeance will bewail their sins, thereby justifyi...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 str...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Wilt Thou refrain Thyself for these things, O Lord?_ SELF-RESTRAINT AND SILENCE, AS APPLIED TO GOD Self-restraint and silence, as applied to God are common figures for inaction and apparent indiffe...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 64:12 YOURSELF... US. God’s own glory and his people’s desire for restored happiness in him will surely move him to act. ⇐

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 64:1 ISRAEL'S PRAYER CONTINUED AND CONCLUDED. Not content with praying God to look upon them once more with favour (Isaiah 63:15), Israel now asks for a theophany, or manifesta

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Oh 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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 42:14; Psalms 10:1; Psalms 74:10; Psalms 74:11; Psalms 74:18;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Wilt thou — Do none of these things move thee to take vengeance? Thy peace — Wilt thou be as one that regards not?...

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