Isaiah 64:7
in Isaiah 64No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
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ASV
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.
KJV
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
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This verse in Isaiah 64
Commentary
3 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
And there is none that calleth upon thy name - The nation is corrupt and degenerate. None worship God in sincerity. That stirreth up himself - The word used here (מתעורר mite‛ôrēr) refers to the effort which is requisite to rouse oneself when oppressed by a spirit of heavy slumber; and the idea here is, that the nation was sunk in spiritual torpor, and that the same effort was needful to excite it which was requisite to rouse one who had sunk down to deep sleep. How aptly this describes the state of a sinful world!
This site's exposition
But we are all as an unclean thing
on Isaiah 64:6-7
The confession reaches its plainest statement: we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, the good deeds themselves, not only the sins, named as unfit to stand before God, and we all do fade as a leaf, our iniquities like the wind carrying us away. The older writers read the filthy rags as ceremonially unclean cloth rather than mere dirt, a picture of something no washing restores by itself. Verse 7 names the deeper trouble beneath the confession, there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee, prayerlessness itself named as part of the sin, and thou hast hid thy face from us as its consequence. Henry reads the whole unit as the pattern of true repentance, sin owned without excuse and without measuring one kind of sin against another.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
(1.) Prayer was in a manner neglected: " There is none that calls on thy name, none that seeks to thee for grace to reform us and take away sin, or for mercy to relieve us and take away the judgments which our sins have brought upon us." Therefore people are so bad, because they do not pray; compare Ps. xiv.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֵין־ | veein- | and there not | H369 → | 789 times |
| קוֹרֵ֣א | kore' | [is one who] calls | H7121 → | 733 times |
| בְשִׁמְךָ֔ | veshimkha | on name your | H8034 → | 864 times |
| מִתְעוֹרֵ֖ר | mitorer | [one who] rouses himself | H5782 → | 80 times |
| לְהַחֲזִ֣יק | lehachazik | to take hold | H2388 → | 291 times |
| בָּ֑ךְ | bakh | on <the> you | ||
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| הִסְתַּ֤רְתָּ | histarta | you have hidden | H5641 → | 80 times |
| פָנֶ֙יךָ֙ | faneikha | face your | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| מִמֶּ֔נּוּ | mimenu | from us | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| וַתְּמוּגֵ֖נוּ | vatemugenu | and you have melted us | H4127 → | |
| בְּיַד־ | beyad- | in [the] hand of | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| עֲוֹנֵֽנוּ׃ | ʾavonenu | iniquity our | H5771 → | 233 times |
וְאֵין־and there not
veein-H369 →789 times
קוֹרֵ֣א[is one who] calls
kore'H7121 →733 times
בְשִׁמְךָ֔on name your
veshimkhaH8034 →864 times
מִתְעוֹרֵ֖ר[one who] rouses himself
mitorerH5782 →80 times
לְהַחֲזִ֣יקto take hold
lehachazikH2388 →291 times
בָּ֑ךְon <the> you
bakh
כִּֽי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
הִסְתַּ֤רְתָּyou have hidden
histartaH5641 →80 times
פָנֶ֙יךָ֙face your
faneikhaH6440 →2123 times
מִמֶּ֔נּוּfrom us
mimenuH4480 →1188 times
וַתְּמוּגֵ֖נוּand you have melted us
vatemugenuH4127 →
בְּיַד־in [the] hand of
beyad-H3027 →1618 times
עֲוֹנֵֽנוּ׃iniquity our
ʾavonenuH5771 →233 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezekiel 22:30I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no…
it leads to
- Psalms 106:23
So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 59:16
He saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.
- Jeremiah 5:1
“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I…
- Genesis 18:23–32
Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
- Psalms 106:23
Through
Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
it leads to
- Proverbs 15:29
The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
- Jeremiah 5:25
Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
- Micah 3:4
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
- Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
- Proverbs 15:29
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About Isaiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.