Chapter 64:
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Isaiah 64
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The church prays that God's power may be manifested.
(1-5) A confession of sin, and afflictions bewailed. (6-12)
Verses 1-5 They
desire that God would manifest himself to them and for them, so that all may see
it. This is applicable to the second coming of Christ, when the Lord himself
shall descend from heaven. They plead what God had used to do, and had declared
his gracious purpose to do, for his people. They need not fear being
disappointed of it, for it is sure; or disappointed in it, for it is sufficient.
The happiness of his people is bound up in what God has designed for them, and
is preparing for them, and preparing them for; what he has done or will do. Can
we believe this, and then think any thing too great to expect from his truth,
power, and love? It is spiritual and cannot be comprehended by human
understanding. It is ever ready. See what communion there is between a gracious
God and a gracious soul. We must make conscience of doing our duty in every
thing the Lord our God requires. Thou meetest him; this speaks his freeness and
forwardness in doing them good. Though God has been angry with us for our sins,
and justly, yet his anger has soon ended; but in his favour is life, which goes
on and continues, and on that we depend for our salvation.
Verses 6-12 The
people of God, in affliction, confess and bewail their sins, owning themselves
unworthy of his mercy. Sin is that abominable thing which the Lord hates. Our
deeds, whatever they may seem to be, if we think to merit by them at God's hand,
are as rags, and will not cover us; filthy rags, and will but defile us. Even
our few good works in which there is real excellence, as fruits of the Spirit,
are so defective and defiled as done by us, that they need to be washed in the
fountain open for sin and uncleanness. It bodes ill when prayer is kept back. To
pray, is by faith to take hold of the promises the Lord has made of his
good-will to us, and to plead them; to take hold of him, earnestly begging him
not to leave us; or soliciting his return. They brought their troubles upon
themselves by their own folly. Sinners are blasted, and then carried away, by
the wind of their own iniquity; it withers and then ruins them. When they made
themselves as an unclean thing, no wonder that God loathed them. Foolish and
careless as we are, poor and despised, yet still Thou art our Father. It is the
wrath of a Father we are under, who will be reconciled; and the relief our case
requires is expected only from him. They refer themselves to God. They do not
say, "Lord, rebuke us not," for that may be necessary; but, "Not in thy
displeasure." They state their lamentable condition. See what ruin sin brings
upon a people; and an outward profession of holiness will be no defence against
it. God's people presume not to tell him what he shall say, but their prayer is,
Speak for the comfort and relief of thy people. How few call upon the Lord with
their whole hearts, or stir themselves to lay hold upon him! God may delay for a
time to answer our prayers, but he will, in the end, answer those who call on
his name and hope in his mercy.
Chapter 64:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Song of Solomon Jeremiah
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