Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 64:11
Pleasant things — The king's palace, and the houses of the nobles, and other pieces of state and magnificence.
Pleasant things — The king's palace, and the houses of the nobles, and other pieces of state and magnificence.
OUR HOLY AND OUR BEAUTIFUL HOUSE - The temple. It was called ‘holy,’ because it was dedicated to the service of God; and ‘beautiful,’ on account of its extraordinary magnificence. The original word mo...
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...
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...
PRAISED. See note on "shall not", &c. (Isaiah 13:10). IS BURNED UP WITH FIRE. This prayer is proleptic; and is said now by anticipation of the then (and now still future) day of Israel's repentance a...
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....
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...
The evidences of Jehovah's displeasure are to be seen on every hand, in the desolation and ruin of the sacred places....
The reference must apparently be to the first Temple and its destruction by the Chaldæans. The expression, and indeed the whole tone of the passage, suggest an event not quite recent; it is not the pr...
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...
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. OUR HOLY AND OUR BEAUTIFUL HOUSE, WHERE OUR FATHERS PRAISED TH...
1-3. The imagery is taken from the account of the divine manifestation at Sinai (Exodus 19:18)....
PLEASANT THINGS] the same word as 'goodly vessels,' 2 Chronicles 36:19....
Isaiah 49:19 describes the great damage that enemies have caused all through Judah. In particular, enemies have ruined *Jerusalem. They have even ruined the *Temple, which stood on the mountain called...
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...
OUR HOLY AND OUR BEAUTIFUL HOUSE... — The destruction of the Temple, which, on the assumption of Isaiah’s authorship, the prophet sees in vision, with all its historic memories, comes as the climax of...
_[Isaiah 64:10]_ בֵּ֧ית קָדְשֵׁ֣נוּ וְ תִפְאַרְתֵּ֗נוּ אֲשֶׁ֤ר...
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...
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...
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...
Our holy and our beautiful house, (m) where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. (m) In which we rejoiced and worshipped you....
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...
11._The house of our sanctuary and of our glory. _(195) It is called “the sanctuary of the people” in a different sense from that in which it is called “the sanctuary of God;” for, being the testimony...
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...
OUR HOLY AND OUR BEAUTIFUL HOUSE,.... Meaning the temple, the house of God, as Aben Ezra: called "holy", because dedicated to holy uses; where the holy sacrifices were offered up, the holy service of...
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. Ver. 11. _Our holy and our beautiful house._] The Church riseth h...
_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...
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised Thee, the Temple in which the true worship had taken place, IS BURNED UP WITH FIRE, consumed by its flames; AND ALL OUR PLEASANT THINGS, the...
AN APPEAL TO JEHOVAH TO FORSAKE HIS WRATH...
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...
OUR HOLY AND OUR BEAUTIFUL HOUSE; the _temple_, ISAIAH 60:7: q.d. Not only our cities, and our principal cities, but even our _temple_, which we thought sacred and inviolable, in which we have gloried...
Isaiah 64:11 holy H6944 beautiful H8597 temple H1004 fathers H1 praised H1984 (H8765) up H8316 fire H784 things...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised Thee, is burned up with fire_ THE BURNT TEMPLE I. HERE IS PATHETIC LAMENTATION. 1. The children of Israel regarded the temple as their o...
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
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...
1 Kings 8:14; 1 Kings 8:56; 2 Chronicles 29:25; 2 Chronicles 36:19;...