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Isaiah 64:5-7

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 64:5 With four comparisons, Isaiah laments the long-standing patterns of sin among God’s people. for you have hidden your face. See Isaiah 8:17. When God’s “face” shines upon his people, they live in his favor (Numbers 6:25); when he hides it due to their unfaithfulness, they suffer.

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See also Isaiah 64:5-7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 64:5. _THOU MEETEST HIM THAT REJOICETH AND WORKETH_ _RIGHTEOUSNESS_ - "Thou meetest with joy those who work righteousness"] The _Syriac_ reads פוגע אתה שש בעשי _poga attah_ _shesh baashi_...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOU MEETEST HIM - Perhaps there are few verses in the Bible that have given more perplexity to interpreters than this; and after all that has been done, the general impression seems to be, that it is...

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 The appeal rings like a litany, reminding Yahweh, who has withdrawn into His glorious heavenly palace, of H...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

    THOU MEETEST HIM. Thou didst meet him. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 32:1). App-92. THAT REJOICETH. who was rejoicing, &c. ART WROTH. wert, or wast wroth. SINNED. Hebrew. _chata_. App-44. THOSE...

  • 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

    This difficult passage contains (1) an appeal to that which distinguishes Jehovah from all other deities: He is the only God who works for them that wait for Him in the way of righteousness; (2) a con...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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 word...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOU MEETEST HIM THAT REJOICETH, &C.— Thou meetest with joy those who work righteousness; who in thy ways remember thee. Lo! thou art angry; for we have sinned; because of our deeds; for we have been...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. RESTLESSNESS OF ZION (cont-'d), Chapter S 63 - 64 4. PENITENTLY VEXED TEXT: Isaiah 64:1-7 1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake a...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thou 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. THOU ME...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    64:5 those (g-25) i.e. 'in thy ways.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

  • 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

    THOU MEETEST HIM... — The “meeting” is obviously one of favour. That was the law of God’s dealings with men. He met, in this sense, those who at once rejoiced in righteousness and practised it. But wi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Isaiah 64:4]_ פָּגַ֤עְתָּ אֶת ־שָׂשׂ֙ וְ עֹ֣שֵׂה...

  • 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

    Thou meetest him (d) that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, [those that] remember thee in thy (e) ways: behold, thou art angry; for we have sinned: in (f) those is continuance, and we (g) shall be...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Thee. The little band of Judas was sincerely attached to the Lord, 2 Machabees i. 3. --- Sinned. This excited thy anger. Yet thou wilt shew mercy. Sin is often put for punishment. (Calmet) --- Vau me...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    To the earnest cry of the soul, that went up in the preceding supplication, the humbling of the soul, in the deepest self abasement of spirit, which here follows, becomes a most suited addition, in pr...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    5._Thou hast met. _He proceeds with the same subject; for the people deplore their hard lot, that they feel no alleviation in their adversity, although formerly God was wont to stretch out the hand to...

  • 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

    THOU MEETEST HIM THAT REJOICETH,.... Not in a carnal way, nor in a sinful manner, nor in a hypocritical one, or in vain boastings, all such rejoicing is evil: but in the Lord, in the person of Christ;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou 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. Ver. 5....

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

    _Thou meetest him that rejoiceth_, &c. “Thou preventest, with the blessings of thy goodness, those that take pleasure in the ways of thy commandments, and live under a continual sense of thy providenc...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AN APPEAL TO JEHOVAH TO FORSAKE HIS WRATH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thou meetest, in a friendly and kindly manner, HIM THAT REJOICETH AND WORKETH RIGHTEOUSNESS, happy in observing the covenant faithfulness, THOSE THAT REMEMBER THEE IN THY WAYS, doing His will with joy...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 They desire that God would manifest himself to them and for them, so that all may see it. This is applicable to the second coming of Christ, when the Lord himself shall descend from heaven. They...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THOU MEETEST HIM; or, _wast wont_ to meet him; or, thou preventest him, ISAIAH 65:24 PSALMS 21:2,3, as the father the prodigal. _That rejoiceth and worketh righteousness_, viz. that rejoice to work ri...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 64:5 meet H6293 (H8804) rejoices H7797 (H8801) does H6213 (H8802) righteousness H6664 remembers H2142 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH ADMITS THE UTTER UNWORTHINESS OF THOSE WHOM HE REPRESENTS (ISAIAH 64:5). Isaiah 64:5 ‘You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, Those who remember you in your ways, Behold you were...

  • 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

    _Thou meetest him that rejoiceth_ THE GODLY MAN I. THE GODLY MAN’S CONDUCT. 1. He worketh righteousness. He does not confine himself to any department of action, it may be manual, commercial, liter...

  • 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

    Acts 10:2; Acts 10:35; Exodus 20:24; Exodus 25:22; Exodus 29:42;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Meetest — As the father the prodigal. Worketh — That rejoices to work righteousness. Continuance — To those that work righteousness. Be saved — In so doing, in working righteousness....

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