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Isaiah 64 Summary
A Prayer for God's Intervention
The people cry out that God would rend the heavens and come down, making His name known to adversaries so that nations tremble. They confess that since the beginning of the world no eye has seen what God has prepared for those who wait upon Him, yet God meets those who work righteousness and remember Him in His ways. The people acknowledge their sin, declaring themselves unclean with righteousnesses like filthy rags, consumed by iniquities, with none calling upon His name. They plead that the Lord is their Father and Potter, asking that He not hold iniquity against them forever, for Zion is a wilderness and Jerusalem a desolation.
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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,”
Isaiah 64:4
“For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.”
Isaiah 64:6
“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”
Isaiah 64:8
“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.”
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