Isaiah 64:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. ”

• Isaiah 64:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Our holy and our beautiful house - The temple. It was called ‘holy,’ because it was dedicated to the service of God; and ‘beautiful,’ on account of its extraordinary magnificence. The original wo...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Our holy and our beautiful house, (m) where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. (m) In which we rejoiced and worshipped you.

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• Isaiah 64:11 - 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...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  praised. See note on "shall not", &c. ( Isaiah 13:10 ). is burned up with fire. This prayer is proleptic; and is said now by anticipation of the then (and now still future) day of Israel's r...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  11. The house of our sanctuary and of our glory. (195) It is called “the sanctuary of the people” in a different sense from that in which it is called “the sanctuary of God;” for, being the...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

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• Isaiah 64:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers prais...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1-3. The imagery is taken from the account of the divine manifestation at Sinai ( Exodus 19:18 ).

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• Isaiah 64:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Our holy and our beautiful house... — The destruction of the Temple, which, on the assumption of Isaiah’s authorship, the prophet sees in vision, with all its historic memories, comes as the climax...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - 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...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - 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...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - 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...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - 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...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Our holy and our beautiful house ,.... Meaning the temple, the house of God, as Aben Ezra: called "holy", because dedicated to holy uses; where the holy sacrifices were offered up, the holy service...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. Ver. 11. Our holy and our beautiful house. ] The Church riseth...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - 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...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Humble Confession. B. C. 706.       6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righ...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Our holy and our beautiful house; the temple , Isaiah 60:7 : q.d. Not only our cities, and our principal cities, but even our temple , which we thought sacred and inviolable, in which we have...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - 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...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - 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...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - 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...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised Thee, is burned up with fire The burnt temple I. HERE IS PATHETIC LAMENTATION. 1. The children of Israel regarded the temple as th...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - 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...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  An Appeal to Jehovah to Forsake His Wrath

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• Isaiah 64:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 8:14 ; 1 Kings 8:56 ; 2 Chronicles 29:25-30 ; 2 Chronicles 36:19 ; 2 Chronicles 6:4 ; 2 Chronicles 7:3 ; 2 Chronicles 7:6 ; 2 Kings 25:9 ; Ezekiel 24:21 ; Ezekiel 24:25 ; Ezekiel 7...

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• Isaiah 64:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Pleasant things — The king's palace, and the houses of the nobles, and other pieces of state and magnificence.

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