Isaiah 64

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64

ISAIAH CHAPTER 64 The church’s prayer continued, for the illustration of God’s glory, Isaiah 64:1-5; with a confession of their sins, and complaint of their afflictions, Isaiah 64:6-12. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:1

Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens: either the earnest desire of the prophet, or the Jews’ strong wish, for the coming of the Messias: or rather, their cry to God for vengeance upon their adversaries, on consideration of the enemy’s unmerciful dealing with them, and their insolent and opprobrious usage of God in his temple; partly expressing their haste and earnestness, and partly intimating that God would do it with violence and fury, implied in the word rending them, Psalms 18:6,Psalms... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:2

As when the melting fire burneth; come with such zeal for thy people, that the solid mountains may be no more before thy breath than metal that runs, or water that boils by the force of a vehement fire; and thus, for the most part, when God will take vengeance of his enemies, the Scripture expresseth him coming with fire. Thy name known; thy power known, that thine enemies and persecutors of try church may know thy power, and that thy name may be dreaded among them; his name put for his power,... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:3

When thou didst terrible things: this may relate to what he did among the Egyptians, though it be not recorded, and afterward in the wilderness. Which we looked not for, viz. our forefathers, of whose race we are; before we expected them; or such things as we could never expect. The mountains flowed down: q.d. Seeing thou hast made the mountains thus to melt, thou canst do the same again. This may allude either, 1. To those showers of rain that fell with that terrible thunder and lightning, and... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:4

Whereas there are but three ways whereby men ordinarily come to the knowledge of a thing, viz. by the ear, either our own hearing, or by hearsay; and by the eye; and by reason, which the apostle adds, where he makes use of this text, 1 Corinthians 2:9; two of them are mentioned here. Besides thee; with reference either to the gods that do them. never any other god could do like time; or to things done, never any besides thee could do such things as were never seen or heard of. He refers to... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:5

Thou meetest him; or, wast wont to meet him; or, thou preventest him, Isaiah 65:24; Psalms 21:2,Psalms 21:3, as the father the prodigal. That rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, viz. that rejoice to work righteousness; the same thing expressed by two words, by a figure called hendiadis. That remember thee in thy ways; an amplification of the former words: q.d. To walk in thy ways, whether of providence, precept, or counsel, by virtue of the covenant they have with thee. Thou art wroth; for we... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:6

We are all as an unclean thing: he alludes either to things unclean under the ceremonial law, wherein the leprosy was found, and was to be burnt, Leviticus 13:55; or rather to persons unclean. They compare their present state with the former: q.d. Formerly there were some that feared thee, and walked uprightly before thee, and were in thy favour; but now we are all as one polluted mass, nothing of good left in us, by reason of a universal degeneracy, Isaiah 1:4,Isaiah 1:6. Our righteousnesses:... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:7

And there is none; or, yet there is none, i.e. few, Psalms 14:3; they are not to be discerned among the multitude. That calleth; such as call upon thee as they ought, as Jacob, and Moses, and David, &c. did, which often prevents the ruin of a state or kingdom: it points out the universal apostacy of the last times of the Jewish state, for which they were cut off. To take hold of thee; either to stay thee from departing from us; see Luke 24:28,Luke 24:29; or to fetch thee back, when... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:8

But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; an argument or pathetical plea for pity; or, Notwithstanding all this, thou art our Father, both by creation and by adoption, therefore pity us thy children. We are the clay; a metonymy of the matter, clay for the vessels made of clay; or, we are clay, pointing at our original matter; or it may relate to their state, that God framed them in a body civil and ecclesiastical, out of a confused multitude; they plead at the same time their own frailty, why they... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:9

Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever, viz. Thou hast been angry with us a long time, be not so for ever; but deal with us as may best consist with a father’s bowels. It hath reference both to quantity and time, that it might not be very great, nor of long durance. See on Psalms 79:8. We are all thy people, thy peculiar people, Isaiah 28:9. Though we are very bad in ourselves, and very badly handled by our enemies, thou sufferest in our sufferings, for thou hast not... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:1

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:5

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:6

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:7

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:8

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:9

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