Isaiah 63:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Why

And hardened

Romans 9:18

Return

Zechariah 1:12

General references

Bible References

Why

With all my heart I seek you. Do not allow me to stray from your commands!

Do not let me have evil desires, or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I will not eat their delicacies.

For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally.

Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false.

And hardened

Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed."

But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our God had made him obstinate and stubborn so that he might deliver him over to you this very day.

for the Lord determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses.

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them."

So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

Return

And when it came to rest he would say, "Return, O Lord, to the many thousands of Israel!"

A well-written song by Asaph. Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?

O God, invincible warrior, come back! Look down from heaven and take notice! Take care of this vine,

Turn back toward us, O Lord! How long must this suffering last? Have pity on your servants!

The angel of the Lord then asked, "Lord who rules over all, how long before you have compassion on Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah which you have been so angry with for these seventy years?"

General references

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not release the people.

But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God."

But to this very day the Lord has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears!

I declare to you this very day that you will certainly perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.