Isaiah 64:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. ”

Isaiah 64:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy holy cities are a wilderness - It is to be remembered that this is supposed to be spoken near the close of the exile in Babylon. In accordance with the usual custom in this book, Isaiah throw...
Isaiah 64:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(l) Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. (l) Who were dedicated to your service, and to call on your Name.
Isaiah 64:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

These verses, which describe the Temple as not merely desecrated but actually burned, seem to be a late addition from a period of which we have no exact information. The cities of the holy land are...
Isaiah 64:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

holy. See note on Exodus 3:6 . desolation . Referring to the time of Matthew 23:38 ; Matthew 24:2 .
Isaiah 64:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

10. The cities of thy holiness. The Church again recounts her miseries, that she may move God to mercy and obtain pardon. She says that the cities have been reduced to “a wilderness;” and, f...
Isaiah 64:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Isaiah 64:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. No city but Jerusalem is called...
Isaiah 64:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-3. The imagery is taken from the account of the divine manifestation at Sinai ( Exodus 19:18 ).
Isaiah 64:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thy holy cities... — There is no other instance of the plural, and this probably led the LXX. and Vulg. to substitute the singular. It probably rests on the thought that the whole land was holy ( Z...
Isaiah 64:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1-24 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemp...
Isaiah 64:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Cry for Pardon Isaiah 64:1-12 The great past , Isaiah 64:1-5 . We are introduced to the prophet's oratory and hear the outpourings of his heart. As he recalls the story of bygone days, he...
Isaiah 64:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The praise and confession merge into a prayer in which the sore need of the people is first described, and then a cry full of intense anguish is lifted for the dawning of the day when Jehovah will ac...
Isaiah 64:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

How beautiful is the connection between the opening and close of this prayer, and indeed the whole, of the Chapter from beginning to end! Surely, every faithful follower of the Lord Jesus, who knows...
Isaiah 64:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thy holy cities are a wilderness ,.... Meaning either Zion, the city of David, and Jerusalem; the one called the upper, the other the lower city; now uninhabited, and a mere wilderness: or else the...
Isaiah 64:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Ver. 10. Thy holy cities are a wilderness. ] And is that for thine honour. "Behold, see, we beseech thee."
Isaiah 64:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thy holy cities Zion and Jerusalem, mentioned immediately after; or other cities also in the land of Judea besides these two; called holy , because God had his synagogues in them, in which he was...
Isaiah 64:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Humble Confession. B. C. 706. 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righ...
Isaiah 64:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thy holy cities; either Zion and Jerusalem, being the cities they instance in: q.d. Thy holy cities, viz. Zion and Jerusalem: or rather, other cities also in the land of Judea besides those two; ca...
Isaiah 64:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah Pleads For Yahweh To Exercise His Sovereignty On Their Behalf ( Isaiah 64:8-12 ). Isaiah 64:8 ‘But now O Yahweh, you are our father, We are the clay and you are the potter, And we are...
Isaiah 64:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 64:1-2 . Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, as when the melting fire burneth, Or, much better, «as w...
Isaiah 64:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 64:1 . A new scene of prophetic events opens here, where the prophet in time of trouble cries the more in spirit to the Messiah. Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens and come down. It is...
Isaiah 64:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 64:1-23 ISRAEL 'S PRAYER CONTINUED AND CONCLUDED . Not content with praying God to look upon them once more with favour ( Isaiah 63:15 ), Israel now asks for a the...
Isaiah 64:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

An Appeal to Jehovah to Forsake His Wrath
Isaiah 64:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 36:19-21 ; 2 Kings 25:9 ; Daniel 12:7 ; Daniel 9:26 ; Daniel 9:27 ; Isaiah 1:7 ; Lamentations 1:1-4 ; Lamentations 2:4-8 ; Lamentations 5:18 ; Luke 21:21 ; Luke 21:24 ; Micah...

Isaiah 64:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 64:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 64:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 64:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 64:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 64:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 64:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 64:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 64:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 64:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 64:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 64:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 64:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 64:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 64:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 64:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 64:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 64:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 64:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 64:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 64:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 64:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 64:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 64:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge