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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O Lord, in spite of the seriousness of the situation, Thou art our Father, He Himself had begotten them in mercy; we are the clay and Thou our Potter, who chose and molded the people for His purposes, and we all are the work of Thy hand, both Israel's history and position being in the guidance of Jehovah.

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See also Isaiah 64:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 64:8. _BUT, NOW, O LORD, THOU_ ART _OUR FATHER_ - "But thou, O JEHOVAH, thou art our Father"] For ועתה _veattah, and now_, five MSS., one of them ancient, and the two oldest editions, 14...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT NOW, O LORD, THOU ART OUR FATHER - (See the notes at Isaiah 63:16). WE ARE THE CLAY - The idea seems to be, that their condition then had been produced by him as clay is moulded by the potter, and...

  • 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

    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 The appeal rings like a litany, reminding Yahweh, who has withdrawn into His glorious heavenly palace, of H...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NOW.. special various reading, called _Sevir_ (App-34), with some codices, two early printed editions, and Aramaean, read "Thou". THOU ART OUR FATHER. See note on Isaiah 63:16. HAND. Some codices, w...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _thou_art _our father_ See on Isaiah 63:16. _we_are _the clay, and thou our potter_ The nearest parallel to this application of the common image of clay and potter is perhaps Job 10:9. It is the plea...

  • 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....

  • 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

    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. BUT NOW, O LORD, THOU (ART) OUR FATHER - (.) WE (ARE) THE CLAY, AND THOU OUR POTTE...

  • 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

    Cp. Isaiah 63:16; Romans 9:20. An appeal to God that He will not abandon the work of His own hands. 10, 11. Another motive for Jehovah's interference—the present desolation of the land and sanctuary...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The people use the family title ‘Father’ as they pray. They consider that this word expresses well their close relation with God. (See my notes on Isaiah 63:16.) • The use of *clay is another word pi...

  • 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

    WE ARE THE CLAY, AND THOU OUR POTTER... — Commonly, partly, perhaps, from St. Paul’s application of the image in Romans 9:20, and Isaiah’s own use of it in Isaiah 29:16, we associate the idea of the p...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Isaiah 64:7]_ וְ עַתָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אָבִ֣ינוּ אָ֑תָּה...

  • 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

    But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the (i) clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand. (i) Even though O Lord by your just judgment you may utterly destroy us as t...

  • 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

    8._And now, O Jehovah. _After having complained of their miseries, by which they were almost overwhelmed, they now more openly ask pardon from God and a mitigation of their distresses, and with greate...

  • 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

    BUT NOW, O LORD, THOU ART OUR FATHER,.... Notwithstanding all that we have done against thee, and thou hast done to us, the relation of a father continues; thou art our Father by creation and adoption...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 o...

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

    _But now, O Lord, thou art our Father_ Notwithstanding all this, thou art our Father, having both created and adopted us; therefore pity us thy children; _we are the clay, and thou our potter_ We are...

  • 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

    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 A...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 64:8 LORD H3068 Father H1 clay H2563 potter H3335 (H8802) work H4639 hand H3027 thou art -...

  • 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...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    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). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 64:8 I. How does the Potter use and convert the clay? (1) It is clear that the clay must be purified. The blood of Jesus Christ passes over it, mingles with it, and it is pure. (2) And so God p...

  • 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

    _But now, O Lord, Thou art our Father_ GOD 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 lif...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _But we are all as an unclean thing_ ISRAEL’S UNCLEANNESS “And we are all become as one unclean”--in a ceremonial sense, like the leper. (_Prof. Skinner, D. D._) LAMENTATIONS OF ISAIAH You have r...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 64:8 YOU ARE OUR FATHER. Isaiah puts his hope in God as the sovereign Father (see Psalms 103:13;...

  • 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

    Deuteronomy 32:6; Ephesians 2:10; Exodus 4:22; Galatians 3:26;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

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