Isaiah 64:8 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter. We are the work of your hands.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

ASV:

But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

BBE:

Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.

DBY:

And now, Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

ERV:

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

JPS:

But now, O LORD, Thou art our Father; we are the clay, and Thou our potter, and we all are the work of Thy hand.

WBS:

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

WEB:

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

YLT:

And now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father, We are the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of us.

Isaiah 64:8 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 100:3 Know that the LORD Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Isaiah 29:16 You turn things around! Shall the potter be considered as equal with the clay, That what is made would say to its maker, "He did not make me"; Or what is formed say to him who formed it, "He has no understanding "?

Isaiah 45:9 "Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker-- An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, 'What are you doing?' Or the thing you are making say, 'He has no hands '?

Isaiah 60:21 "Then all your people will be righteous; They will possess the land forever, The branch of My planting, The work of My hands, That I may be glorified.

Isaiah 63:16 For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us And Israel does not recognize us. You, O LORD, are our Father, Our Redeemer from of old is Your name. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

64:8 But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the {i} clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.
(i) Even though O Lord by your just judgment you may utterly destroy us as the potter may his pot, yet we appeal to your mercies, by which it has pleased you to adopt us to be your children.

WES:

64:8 Our father - Notwithstanding all this thou art our father both by creation, and by adoption, therefore pity us thy children.

MHC:

64:6-12 The people of God, in affliction, confess and bewail their sins, owning themselves unworthy of his mercy. Sin is that abominable thing which the Lord hates. Our deeds, whatever they may seem to be, if we think to merit by them at God's hand, are as rags, and will not cover us; filthy rags, and will but defile us. Even our few good works in which there is real excellence, as fruits of the Spirit, are so defective and defiled as done by us, that they need to be washed in the fountain open for sin and uncleanness. It bodes ill when prayer is kept back. To pray, is by faith to take hold of the promises the Lord has made of his good-will to us, and to plead them; to take hold of him, earnestly begging him not to leave us; or soliciting his return. They brought their troubles upon themselves by their own folly. Sinners are blasted, and then carried away, by the wind of their own iniquity; it withers and then ruins them. When they made themselves as an unclean thing, no wonder that God loathed them. Foolish and careless as we are, poor and despised, yet still Thou art our Father. It is the wrath of a Father we are under, who will be reconciled; and the relief our case requires is expected only from him. They refer themselves to God. They do not say, Lord, rebuke us not, for that may be necessary; but, Not in thy displeasure. They state their lamentable condition. See what ruin sin brings upon a people; and an outward profession of holiness will be no defence against it. God's people presume not to tell him what he shall say, but their prayer is, Speak for the comfort and relief of thy people. How few call upon the Lord with their whole hearts, or stir themselves to lay hold upon him! God may delay for a time to answer our prayers, but he will, in the end, answer those who call on his name and hope in his mercy.

CONC:

Angry Clay Ear Framer Mind O Potter Prayer Sins Yet

Angry Clay Ear Framer Hand Mind Potter Prayer Sins Work

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