Isaiah 64
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Lutheran reading notes
In Isaiah chapter 64, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
Isaiah 64:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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As {when} the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, {that} the nations may tremble at thy presence! {the melting...: Heb. the fire of meltings}
Isaiah 64:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When thou didst terrible things {which} we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Isaiah 64:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {seen...: or, seen a God beside thee, which doeth so for him, etc}
Isaiah 64:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 64:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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 64:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And {there is} none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. {consumed: Heb. melted} {because: Heb. by the hand}
Isaiah 64:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 64:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we {are} all thy people.
Isaiah 64:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Isaiah 64:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Isaiah 64:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wilt thou refrain thyself for these {things}, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Isaiah 64:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.