Isaiah 64:11

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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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...
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...
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 ex...
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...
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 i...
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 hol...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-3. The imagery is taken from the account of the divine manifestation at Sinai ( Exodus 19:18 ).
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Pleasant things ] the same word as 'goodly vessels,' 2 Chronicles 36:19 .
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, w...
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 hav...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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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 lift...
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, eve...
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...
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...
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 , becaus...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Humble Confession. B. C. 706. 6 But...
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 w...
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...
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 t...
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 tho...
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 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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

An Appeal to Jehovah to Forsake His Wrath
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised Thee, the Temple in which the true worship had taken place, is burned up with fire, con...
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 2...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

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

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 64:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 64:11