Isaiah 64

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:10

Thy holy cities; either Zion and Jerusalem, being the cities they instance in: q.d. Thy holy cities, viz. Zion and Jerusalem: or rather, other cities also in the land of Judea besides those two; called holy, either, 1. Because they were built upon God’s inheritance, Isaiah 63:17. Or, 2. Because they were inhabited by the Jews, who were a holy people, Deuteronomy 7:6; Daniel 12:7. Or, 3. Because God had his synagogues in them, Psalms 74:8. For all which reasons also they are called thy cities. A... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and our beautiful house; the temple, Isaiah 60:7; q.d. Not only our cities, and our principal cities, but even our temple, which we thought sacred and inviolable, in which we have gloried, because it was thine, and our fathers, and ours, the place where thy holy service was performed, and thy glory and presence was manifested. Our fathers; not presuming to mention themselves, they had been so every way abominable, but their fathers. All our pleasant things; the king’s palace, and the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:12

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, viz. that are done by the Babylonians? do none of these things move thee to take vengeance on them? Wilt thou hold thy peace; wilt thou be as one that regards not? Wilt thou be still, and suffer them? And afflict us very sore: see Isaiah 64:9; for these our sins, or for these our sufferings; shall we feel the smart of it, that have done no such things, but have been sufferers under the Babylonians? to which God answers in the next chapter. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 64:1-2

A PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL REVIVALIsaiah 64:1-2. Oh that Thou wouldst rend the heavens, that Thou wouldst come down, &c.It is not into the mouth of every Israelite that the prophet puts this prayer: only the true-hearted, believing remnant could offer it. Selfish grovelling souls can, perhaps, ask certain blessings from God,—health when they are sick, bread when they are hungry, deliverance when they are in danger; but that God Himself should come down is a thing which they can neither desire... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 64:6

AUTUMN LEAVESIsaiah 64:6. And we all do fade as a leaf.Men have ever been ready to associate the seasons of the year with the periods of human life: to compare our youth with the spring time, &c. We all know we are rapidly passing away, &c. Everything tells us that we are under a law of change and uncertainty, and decay and death; and my object will be to justify and account for this state of things, and to see what reliefs and supports the Gospel gives. Consider—I. THE ORIGIN OF THIS... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 64:7

THE ABSENCE OF IMPORTUNATE PRAYER DEPLOREDIsaiah 64:7. There is none that … stirreth up himself to take hold of Thee.THE SUBJECT OF COMPLAINT AND LAMENTATION. Not the neglect of ordinances, or the lack of profession, &c., but the lack of importunate prayer. How wonderful the permission and privilege here implied! The meaning is obvious. Similar expressions occur (Isaiah 27:5; Isaiah 56:6). These are representations of one act—the act of believing with the heart unto righteousness. But this... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 64:1-2

Isaiah 64:1-2 I. This is nothing less than a prayer that God would manifest Himself as a Judge yes, and as a Destroyer. Isaiah craved for a man who should deliver men from the oppressions of the world's tyranny, from the storms which are raised by the passions of peoples and rulers, from the weariness and exhaustion which follow when they have accomplished their projects with great labour, and nothing comes out of them. All the misery which they cause springs, so the prophet thinks, from their... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 64:6

Isaiah 64:6 I. Notice, first, the very pernicious fact of our inaptitude to feel and reflect that our mortal condition is fading. (1) We are very unapt to recognise the common lot and destiny of all human life that it is to fade and is fading. The vast world of the departed is out of our sight even what was the material and visible part. What is constantly in our sight is the world of the living, and we are unapt to think of them as all appointed not to be living. And we may note a circumstance... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 64:8

Isaiah 64:8 ; Isaiah 33:22 God is related to each of us both as a Father and a King. The idea of a Father contains more prominently the sentiment of bountiful and tender cherishing, while that of a King contains more prominently that of regulation and control; and it is not till we have combined them that we can form an adequate conception of the relation in which He stands to us. I. We should give the idea of God's Fatherhood the first place in our meditations on His character, and not only... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Isaiah 64:6

DISCOURSE: 1018IMPERFECTION OF OUR BEST SERVICESIsaiah 64:6. We are all as an unclean thing; and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.HUMILITY is that grace which is most suited to our condition as fallen creatures; and, that we may be assisted in the pursuit of it, God has graciously given us, not only promises for our encouragement, but patterns for our imitation, and models for our use. We cannot have any more instructive pattern than that which is exhibited in the repenting publican,... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:10

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:11

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:12

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 64:1-2

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 64:6

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 64:7

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 64:1-2

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 64:6

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 64:8

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Isaiah 64:6

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