Isaiah 64:7 - Exposition

There is none that calleth on thy Name . A hyperbole, like Psalms 19:1 , Psalms 19:3 , "There is none that doeth good, no, not one." A general lethargy and apathy had come over the people, so that they could with difficulty rouse themselves to faith and calling upon God. But this general lethargy was not universal; there was a "remnant" which " prayed and did not faint." That stirreth up himself to take hold of thee . This expresses more than mere prayer; it is earnest, intense, "effectual fervent'' prayer. Perhaps none among the exiles may have been capable of such supplication as this, especially as God had hid his face from them, and no longer looked on them with favour. And hast consumed us, because of our iniquities ; rather, and hast delivered us into the power (literally, hand ) of our iniquities. Men's sins are their masters, and exercise a tyrannical control over them, which they are often quite unable to resist (comp. Ezekiel 33:10 , "If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?"). God at times judicially delivers the wicked into the power of their sins (see Romans 1:24 , Romans 1:26 , Romans 1:28 ).