Thematic Bible




Isaiah 64:1 (show verse)

If only You would tear the heavens open
and come down,
so that mountains would quake at Your presence

Isaiah 64:2 (show verse)

as fire kindles the brushwood,
and fire causes water to boil—
to make Your name known to Your enemies,
so that nations will tremble at Your presence!

Isaiah 64:3 (show verse)

When You did awesome works
that we did not expect,
You came down,
and the mountains quaked at Your presence.

Isaiah 64:4 (show verse)

From ancient times no one has heard,
no one has listened,
no eye has seen any God except You,
who acts on behalf of the one who waits for Him.

Isaiah 64:5 (show verse)

You welcome the one who joyfully does what is right;
they remember You in Your ways.
But we have sinned, and You were angry.
How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?

Isaiah 64:6 (show verse)

All of us have become like something unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment;
all of us wither like a leaf,
and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

Isaiah 64:7 (show verse)

No one calls on Your name,
striving to take hold of You.
For You have hidden Your face from us
and made us melt because of our iniquity.

Isaiah 64:8 (show verse)

Yet Lord, You are our Father;
we are the clay, and You are our potter;
we all are the work of Your hands.

Isaiah 64:9 (show verse)

Lord, do not be terribly angry
or remember our iniquity forever.
Please look—all of us are Your people!

Isaiah 64:10 (show verse)

Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

Isaiah 64:11 (show verse)

Our holy and beautiful temple,
where our fathers praised You,
has been burned with fire,
and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

Isaiah 64:12 (show verse)

Lord, after all this, will You restrain Yourself?
Will You keep silent and afflict severely?