Thematic Bible
Isaiah 64:1 (show verse)
Would that you would tear [the] heavens [and] come down; [the] mountains would quake before you,
Isaiah 64:2 (show verse)
as fire kindles brushwood, [the] fire causes water to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, [that the] nations might tremble from your {presence}.
Isaiah 64:3 (show verse)
When you did terrible deeds [which] we did not {expect}, you came down; [the] mountains quaked because of your {presence}.
Isaiah 64:4 (show verse)
And since ancient [times] they have not heard, have not listened, no eye has seen a God except you; he {acts} for the one who waits for him.
Isaiah 64:5 (show verse)
You meet with the one who rejoices, one who does righteousness. In your ways they remember you. Look! You were angry and we sinned against them [in] ancient [times] and we were saved.
Isaiah 64:6 (show verse)
And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind.
Isaiah 64:7 (show verse)
And there is no one who calls on your name, who pulls himself up to keep hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us, and melted us into the hand of our iniquity.
Isaiah 64:8 (show verse)
Yet now Yahweh, you [are] our father; we [are] the clay and you [are] our {potter}, and we all [are] the work of your hand.
Isaiah 64:9 (show verse)
You must not be exceedingly angry, Yahweh, and you must not remember iniquity forever! Look! Behold, now! We all [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 ancestors praised you has {been burned} [by] fire, and all our precious objects have become ruins.
Isaiah 64:12 (show verse)
Will you control yourself because of these, Yahweh? Will you be silent? And will you oppress us exceedingly?