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Isaiah 64
The prayer that began at 63:7 boils over: "Oh that you would tear the heavens and come down," so mountains quake and enemies tremble. It is a demand for God to act visibly, the way fire makes water boil, instead of staying hidden. Then the mood turns inward. The pray-ers admit they are all unclean, their best deeds "like a polluted garment," fading like leaves. The famous turn comes at verse 8: "we are the clay and you our potter" — surrender after the storming.
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Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence—
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as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the water to boil. Make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
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When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.
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For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.
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You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?
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For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
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There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
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But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.
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Don’t be furious, LORD. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
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Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burned with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste.
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Will you hold yourself back for these things, LORD? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?
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¡OH si rompieses los cielos, y descendieras, y á tu presencia se escurriesen los montes,
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Como fuego abrasador de fundiciones, fuego que hace hervir las aguas, para que hicieras notorio tu nombre á tus enemigos, y las gentes temblasen á tu presencia!
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Cuando, haciendo terriblezas cuales nunca esperábamos, descendiste, fluyeron los montes delante de ti.
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Ni nunca oyeron, ni oídos percibieron, ni ojo ha visto Dios fuera de ti, que hiciese por el que en él espera.
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Saliste al encuentro al que con alegría obraba justicia, á los que se acordaban de ti en tus caminos: he aquí, tú te enojaste porque pecamos; en esos hay perpetuidad, y seremos salvos.
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Si bien todos nosotros somos como suciedad, y todas nuestras justicias como trapo de inmundicia; y caímos todos nosotros como la hoja, y nuestras maldades nos llevaron como viento.
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Y nadie hay que invoque tu nombre, que se despierte para tenerte; por lo cual escondiste de nosotros tu rostro, y nos dejaste marchitar en poder de nuestras maldades.
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Ahora pues, Jehová, tú eres nuestro padre; nosotros lodo, y tú el que nos formaste; así que obra de tus manos, todos nosotros.
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No te aires, oh Jehová, sobremanera, ni tengas perpetua memoria de la iniquidad: he aquí mira ahora, pueblo tuyo somos todos nosotros.
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Tus santas ciudades están desiertas, Sión es un desierto, Jerusalem una soledad.
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La casa de nuestro santuario y de nuestra gloria, en la cual te alabaron nuestros padres, fué consumida al fuego; y todas nuestras cosas preciosas han sido destruídas.
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¿Te estarás quieto, oh Jehová, sobre estas cosas? ¿callarás, y nos afligirás sobremanera?
A complaint that ends with a question
The closing verses point at concrete wreckage: holy cities turned to wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation, the temple where "our fathers praised you" burned with fire. This is not abstract guilt but the ruins after conquest.
It ends not with a promise but a question — will God stay silent and keep punishing? That unresolved appeal is exactly what chapter 65 finally answers, and the answer reframes everything just asked.
Context layers
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- Matthew 5:6Key passage connected to Righteousness.
- Romans 3:21-26Key passage connected to Righteousness.
- Philippians 3:8-9Key passage connected to Righteousness.
- Proverbs 1:7Key passage connected to Fear of the Lord.
- Psalms 111:10Key passage connected to Fear of the Lord.
- Luke 12:4-7Key passage connected to Fear of the Lord.
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