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O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever? Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?
Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour. O give not the soul of your dove to the hawk; let not the life of the poor go out of your memory for ever.
How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire? See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose? What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.) Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith? Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart; The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.
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Commentary on Isaiah 64 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 64
This chapter goes on with that pathetic pleading prayer which the church offered up to God in the latter part of the foregoing chapter. They had argued from their covenant-relation to God and his interest and concern in them; now here,
And this was not only intended for the use of the captive Jews, but may serve for direction to the church in other times of distress, what to ask of God and how to plead with him. Are God's people at any time in affliction, in great affliction? Let them pray, let them thus pray.
Isa 64:1-5
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Isa 64:6-12
As we have the Lamentations of Jeremiah, so here we have the Lamentations of Isaiah; the subject of both is the same-the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans and the sin of Israel that brought that destruction-only with this difference, Isaiah sees it at a distance and laments it by the Spirit of prophecy, Jeremiah saw it accomplished. In these verses,