E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 64:6
wind. Hebrew. ruach. App-9 . read more
Isaiah 64:6 Niv
E.W. Bullinger
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 64:5-7
Isaiah 64:5-7. Thou meetest him that rejoiceth, &c.— Thou meetest with joy those who work righteousness; who in thy ways remember thee. Lo! thou art angry; for we have sinned; because of our deeds; for we have been rebellious: and we are all of us as a polluted thing; and like a rejected garment are all our righteous deeds: and we are withered away, like a leaf, all of us; and our sins, like the wind, have borne us away. There is no one that invoketh thy name, that rouseth himself up to lay... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 64:6
6. unclean thing—legally unclean, as a leper. True of Israel, everywhere now cut off by unbelief and by God's judgments from the congregation of the saints. righteousness—plural, "uncleanness" extended to every particular act of theirs, even to their prayers and praises. True of the best doings of the unregenerate (Philippians 3:6-8; Titus 1:15; Hebrews 11:6). filthy rags—literally, a "menstruous rag" (Leviticus 15:33; Leviticus 20:18; Lamentations 1:17). fade . . . leaf— (Psalms 90:5; Psalms... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 64:1-7
The confession 64:1-7 read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 64:6
Israel’s sins had thoroughly polluted her and had placed her in an apparently hopeless position (cf. Isaiah 6:5). Furthermore, she could not stop sinning. Was there any hope for her? She was as unclean as a leper, as repulsive as menstrual cloths, and as spiritually lifeless as a dead leaf on a tree ready to be blown away by more sin. read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 64:1-12
1-3. The imagery is taken from the account of the divine manifestation at Sinai (Exodus 19:18).2. RV ’As when fire kindleth the brushwood, and the fire causeth,’ etc. 4. O God, etc.] RV ’a God beside thee, which worketh for him that waiteth for Him.’ St. Paul (1 Corinthians 2:9) alludes to this passage to emphasise the fact that human wisdom cannot fathom the working of God. Meetest] i.e. as a friend.Art] RV ’wast.’ In those, etc.] RV ’in them’ (i.e. our sins) ’have we been of long time, and... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 64:6
(6) We are all as an unclean thing . . .—Better, as he who is unclean, scil., like the leper of Leviticus 13:45.Filthy rags point to that which to the Israelite was the other extremest form of ceremonial uncleanness, as in Ezekiel 36:17.Have taken us away—scil., afar off from the light and favour of Jehovah. read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 64:1-12
Isaiah 64:1 'A phantasmagoria of men and events floats before the historian,' says Mr. J. H. Shorthouse; 'men seem in history to have walked in a vain show; the more he inquires into men and creeds, the more he is perplexed he finds none which he can say is absolutely right, no one fully wrong; the course of Nature maintains its impartial calm, shutting out the sight of God from him, and his constant prayer is that ejaculation of Isaiah, "O that thou wouldest rend the heavens and come down! "'... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 64:1-12
CHAPTER XXVA LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENTIsaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1-24WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel’s Redemption had reached its summit and its end. The glory of Zion in sight, the full programme of prophecy owned, the arrival of the Divine Saviour hailed in the urgency of His feeling for His people, in the sufficiency of His might to save them, -what more, we ask, can the prophecy have to give us? Why does it not... read more
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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 64:1-12
A prayer for Israel (63:7-64:12)The prophet’s prayer for God’s suffering people begins by recalling God’s great acts of love in the past (7). Because Israel was his people, God saved them from slavery in Egypt, though when they rebelled against him, they were punished (8-10). Nevertheless, God forgave them. Therefore, asks the prophet, could not this God of mercy and love, who has done such great things for Israel in the past, also save his people from captivity in Babylon now (11-14)?It seems... read more