Isaiah 63:15-19
1599 Geneva Bible
15 [a]Look down from heaven, and behold from the dwelling place of thine holiness, and of thy glory. Where is thy [b]zeal and thy strength, the multitude of thy mercies, and of thy compassion? they are restrained from [c]me.
16 Doubtless thou art our Father: though [d]Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel know us not, yet thou, O Lord, art our Father, and our redeemer: thy Name is forever.
17 O Lord, why hast [e]thou made us to err from thy ways? and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy [f]servant’s sake, and for the tribes of thine inheritance.
18 The people of thine holiness have possessed it, but a little [g]while: for our adversaries have trodden down thy Sanctuary.
19 We have been as they, over whom thou never barest rule, and upon whom thy name was not called.
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- Isaiah 63:15 Having declared God’s benefits showed to their forefathers, he turned himself to God by prayer, desiring him to continue the same graces toward them.
- Isaiah 63:15 Thy great affection, which thou barest towards us.
- Isaiah 63:15 Meaning, from the whole body of the Church.
- Isaiah 63:16 Though Abraham would refuse us to be his children, yet thou wilt not refuse to be our father.
- Isaiah 63:17 By taking away the holy Spirit from us, by whom we were governed, and so for our ingratitude didst deliver us up to our own concupiscence, and didst punish sin by sin according to thy just judgment.
- Isaiah 63:17 Meaning, for the Covenant’s sake made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob his servants.
- Isaiah 63:18 That is, in respect of the promise, which is perpetual: albeit they had now possessed the land of Canaan, a thousand and four hundred years: and thus they lament, to move God rather to remember his Covenant, than to punish their sins.
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