Isaiah 64:5

Thou meetest (a perf. of experience). The verb is obviously used here in a good sense, as Genesis 32:1.

that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness i.e. that joyfully worketh righteousness. The words rejoiceth andare not in the LXX.

those that remember thee in thy ways Cf. ch. Isaiah 26:8.

thou art wroth &c. R.V. thou wast wroth and we sinned. Cf. ch. Isaiah 57:17.

in those is continuance and we shall be saved R.V. "in them have we been of long time, and shall we be saved?" The text is quite unintelligible. LXX. has simply διὰ τοῦτο ἐπλανήθημεν. The last word suggests a satisfactory emendation (perhaps ונפשע for ונושע). Of further conjectural restorations one may be mentioned, due to Lowth. Instead of בהם עולם he reads בְּהַמְעַוְלם = "against the evil-doers"; thus obtaining a parallelism with the preceding line.

"Behold Thou wast wroth and we sinned,

Against the evildoers, and we fell away."

This is at least a meaning, though not one that is altogether convincing.