Verse 15
"Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me. For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name."
"Thou art our Father ..." (Isaiah 63:16; 64:8). "The triple repetition of these words give this prayer its special intensity, as Israel's sense of estrangement struggles with their desire for acceptance."[21]
Beginning with Isaiah 63:15, and to the end of the chapter, "We have Israel's earnest prayer for God to look down from heaven and save them, because he is their `Father.'"[22]
The ground of Israel's appeal is that God is their `Father'; which, of course, was true enough; but Isaiah's prophecy had answered the questions they raised about God's apparent indifference to them in the very first chapter of his great prophecy. "They had rebelled against God (Isaiah 1:2)."
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