Isaiah 64:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? ”

Isaiah 64:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wilt thou refrain thyself - Wilt thou refuse to come to our aid? Wilt thou decline to visit us, and save us from our calamities? Wilt thou hold thy peace - Wilt thou not speak for our rescue,...
Isaiah 64:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Wilt thou restrain thyself (n) for these [things], O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and grievously afflict us? (n) That is, at the contempt of your own glory? Though our sins have deserved this, ye...
Isaiah 64:12 - 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 64:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

refrain Thyself: i.e. refuse to give way in compassion, &c. Compare Genesis 43:1 ; Genesis 45:1 . Genesis 42:14 . Gen 63:15.
Isaiah 64:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12. Wilt thou restrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? The people strengthen themselves by assured confidence, that God will not permit his glory to be trampled under foot, though men p...
Isaiah 64:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things , O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].
Isaiah 64:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Wilt thou refrain— Wilt thou contain thyself at these things, O JEHOVAH? &c. Lowth. REFLECTIONS.— 1st, We have here, 1. The church's request, desiring some glorious manifestation, as in...
Isaiah 64:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? Wilt thou refrain thyself for these (things), O Lord? - Wilt thou, notwithstanding thes...
Isaiah 64:12 - 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 64:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Wilt thou refrain... ? — The final appeal to the fatherly compassion of Jehovah reminds us of the scene when Joseph could not “refrain” ( Genesis 45:1 ), and natural tenderness would find a vent. Co...
Isaiah 64:12 - 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 64:12 - 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 64:12 - 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 64:12 - 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 64:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord ?.... From delivering us out of our troubles and miseries, and taking vengeance on our enemies, and showing thy zeal for thine own glory; or, as Ki...
Isaiah 64:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these [things], O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? Ver. 12. Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things? ] Or, Canst thou contain thyself at t...
Isaiah 64:12 - 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 64:12 - 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 64:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, viz. that are done by the Babylonians? do none of these things move thee to take vengeance on them? Wilt thou hold thy peace; wilt thou be as one that...
Isaiah 64:12 - 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 64:12 - 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 64:12 - 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 64:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Wilt Thou refrain Thyself for these things, O Lord? Self-restraint and silence, as applied to God Self-restraint and silence, as applied to God are common figures for inaction and apparent indi...
Isaiah 64:12 - 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 64:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

An Appeal to Jehovah to Forsake His Wrath
Isaiah 64:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 42:14 ; Psalms 10:1 ; Psalms 74:10 ; Psalms 74:11 ; Psalms 74:18 ; Psalms 74:19 ; Psalms 79:5 ; Psalms 80:3 ; Psalms 80:4 ; Psalms 83:1 ; Psalms 89:46-51 ; Revelation 6:10 ; Zecha...
Isaiah 64:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Wilt thou — Do none of these things move thee to take vengeance? Thy peace — Wilt thou be as one that regards not?

Isaiah 64:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 64:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 64:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 64:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 64:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 64:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 64:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 64:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 64:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 64:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 64:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 64:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 64:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 64:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 64:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 64:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 64:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 64:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 64:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 64:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 64:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 64:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 64:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 64:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 64:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 64:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 64:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes