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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...
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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...
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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...
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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Yahweh, who has withdrawn into His glorious heavenly palace, of H...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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5. PLEA FOR VERIFICATION
TEXT: Isaiah 64:8-12
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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.
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Be not wroth very sore, O Jeh...
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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...
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1-3. The imagery is taken from the account of the divine manifestation
at Sinai (Exodus 19:18)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_[Isaiah 64:7]_ וְ עַתָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אָבִ֣ינוּ
אָ֑תָּה...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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AN APPEAL TO JEHOVAH TO FORSAKE HIS WRATH...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 64:8 LORD H3068 Father H1 clay H2563 potter H3335 (H8802) work
H4639 hand H3027
thou art -...
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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...
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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). _...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 64:8 YOU ARE OUR FATHER. Isaiah puts his hope
in God as the sovereign Father (see Psalms 103:13;...
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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
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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...
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Deuteronomy 32:6; Ephesians 2:10; Exodus 4:22; Galatians 3:26;...
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Our father — Notwithstanding all this thou art our father both by
creation, and by adoption, therefore pity us thy children....