Isaiah Chapter 64

Prayer for Mercy and Help


64:1 Oh that you would rip open the heavensשָׁמַיִם
Pronunciation:shaw-mah’-yim Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here
, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down at your presence,
64:2 Like when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make Your Name known to Your adversaries, so that the nationsגּוֹיִם
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here
may tremble at your presence!
64:3 When you did terrible things which we didn’t look for, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence.
64:4 Because since the beginning of the world men haven’t heard, or understood by the ear, or has the eye seen, O Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here
, beside You, what he has prepared for him that waits for him.
64:5 You meet him that rejoices and works righteousnessצְדָקָה
Transliteration: ṣᵊḏāqâ Pronunciation: tsed-aw-kaw’ For more info click here
, those that remember you in your ways: see, you are angry; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
64:6 But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnessצִדְקֹתֵינוּ
Transliteration:ṣiḏqōṯênû For more info click here
are like filthy rags; and we all do fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
64:7 And there is no one that calls on Your Name, that stirs up himself to take hold of You: because You have hidden Your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.
64:8 But now, O YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, You are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
64:9 Don’t be so very angry, O YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, or remember iniquity forever: look, see, we beg you, we are all your people.
64:10 Your Holyקָדְשְׁךָ
Transliteration:qāḏšᵊḵā a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity:— your consecrated (thing), your dedicated (thing), your hallowed (thing), your holiness, (× most) your holy (× day, portion, thing), your saint, your sanctuary. For more info click here
cities are a wildernessמִדְבָּר
Transliteration: miḏbār Pronunciation; mid-bawr’ in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, where cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): —desert, south, speech, wilderness. For more info click here
, Zionצִיּוֹן
LXX Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here
is a wildernessמִדְבָּר
Transliteration: miḏbār Pronunciation; mid-bawr’ in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, where cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): —desert, south, speech, wilderness. For more info click here
, Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here
a desolation.
64:11 Our holyקָדְשֵׁנוּ
Transliteration:qāḏšēnû a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity:— our consecrated (thing), our dedicated (thing), our hallowed (thing), our holiness, (× most) our holy (× day, portion, thing), our saint, our sanctuary. For more info click here
and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid to waste.
64:12 Will you refrain yourself for these things, O YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
? will you remain silent, and punish us past endurance?

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