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Where are your zeal and your might? Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us. <a href="/nlt/isaiah/63.htm">New Living Translation</a> LORD, look down from heaven; look from your holy, glorious home, and see us. Where is the passion and the might you used to show on our behalf? Where are your mercy and compassion now? <a href="/esv/isaiah/63.htm">English Standard Version</a> Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and beautiful habitation. Where are your zeal and your might? The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion are held back from me. <a href="/bsb/isaiah/63.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained. <a href="/kjv/isaiah/63.htm">King James Bible</a> Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? <a href="/nkjv/isaiah/63.htm">New King James Version</a> Look down from heaven, And see from Your habitation, holy and glorious. Where are Your zeal and Your strength, The yearning of Your heart and Your mercies toward me? Are they restrained? <a href="/nasb_/isaiah/63.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Look down from heaven and see from Your holy and glorious lofty habitation; Where are Your zeal and Your mighty deeds? The stirrings of Your heart and Your compassion are restrained toward me. <a href="/nasb/isaiah/63.htm">NASB 1995</a> Look down from heaven and see from Your holy and glorious habitation; Where are Your zeal and Your mighty deeds? The stirrings of Your heart and Your compassion are restrained toward me. <a href="/nasb77/isaiah/63.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Look down from heaven, and see from Thy holy and glorious habitation; Where are Thy zeal and Thy mighty deeds? The stirrings of Thy heart and Thy compassion are restrained toward me. <a href="/lsb/isaiah/63.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Look down from heaven and see from Your holy and glorious habitation; Where are Your zeal and Your mighty deeds? The tumults within You and Your compassion are restrained toward me. <a href="/amp/isaiah/63.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Look down from heaven and see from Your lofty dwelling place, holy and glorious. Where are Your zeal and Your mighty acts [Your miracles which you did for Your people]? The stirring of Your heart and Your compassion are restrained and withheld from me. <a href="/csb/isaiah/63.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Look down from heaven and see from your lofty home—holy and beautiful. Where is your zeal and your might? Your yearning and your compassion are withheld from me. <a href="/hcsb/isaiah/63.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Look down from heaven and see from Your lofty home—holy and beautiful. Where is Your zeal and Your might? Your yearning and Your compassion are withheld from me. <a href="/asv/isaiah/63.htm">American Standard Version</a> Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me. <a href="/cev/isaiah/63.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Please, LORD, look down from your holy and glorious home in the heavens and see what's going on. Have you lost interest? Where is your power? Show that you care about us and have mercy! <a href="/erv/isaiah/63.htm">English Revised Version</a> Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy bowels and thy compassions are restrained toward me. <a href="/gwt/isaiah/63.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Look down and see from heaven, from your holy and beautiful dwelling. Where is your determination and might? Where is the longing of your heart and your compassion? Don't hold back. <a href="/gnt/isaiah/63.htm">Good News Translation</a> LORD, look upon us from heaven, where you live in your holiness and glory. Where is your great concern for us? Where is your power? Where are your love and compassion? Do not ignore us. <a href="/isv/isaiah/63.htm">International Standard Version</a> Look down from heaven, and see from your holy and glorious dwelling. Where are your zeal and your might? Where are the yearning of your heart and your compassion? They are held back from me. <a href="/msb/isaiah/63.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained. <a href="/net/isaiah/63.htm">NET Bible</a> Look down from heaven and take notice, from your holy, majestic palace! Where are your zeal and power? Do not hold back your tender compassion! <a href="/nheb/isaiah/63.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me. <a href="/wbt/isaiah/63.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies towards me? are they restrained? <a href="/web/isaiah/63.htm">World English Bible</a> Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/isaiah/63.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Look attentively from the heavens, "" And see from Your holy and beautiful habitation, "" Where [is] Your zeal and Your might? The multitude of Your bowels and Your mercies—Are they restrained? <a href="/ylt/isaiah/63.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Look attentively from the heavens, And see from Thy holy and beauteous habitation, Where is Thy zeal and Thy might? The multitude of Thy bowels and Thy mercies Towards me have refrained themselves. <a href="/slt/isaiah/63.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Look from the heavens, and see from thy holy dwelling and thy glory: where thy zeal and thy strength? the multitude of thy bowels and thy compassions to me restrained themselves.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/isaiah/63.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Look down from heaven, and behold from thy holy habitation and the place of thy glory: where is thy zeal, and thy strength, the multitude of thy bowels, and of thy mercies? they have held back themselves from me. <a href="/cpdv/isaiah/63.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Gaze down from heaven, and behold from your holy habitation and from your glory. Where is your zeal, and your strength, the fullness of your heart and of your compassion? They have held themselves back from me. <a href="/nabre/isaiah/63.htm">New American Bible</a> Look down from heaven and regard us from your holy and glorious palace! Where is your zealous care and your might, your surge of pity? Your mercy hold not back! <a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/63.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and glorious habitation. Where are your zeal and your might? The yearning of your heart and your compassion? They are withheld from me.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/63.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Look down from heaven and behold from thy holy and glorious habitation. Where is thy zeal and thy strength? Turn thy tender mercies and compassion toward us. Are they restrained? <a href="/hpbt/isaiah/63.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Gaze from Heaven and see from your holy and glorious dwelling! Where are your zeal and your heroism, and the return of your tears and of your affection that were returned upon us?<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/isaiah/63.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Look down from heaven, and see, Even from Thy holy and glorious habitation; Where is Thy zeal and Thy mighty acts, The yearning of Thy heart and Thy compassions, Now restrained toward me? <a href="/sep/isaiah/63.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Turn from heaven, and look from thy holy habitation and from thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength? where is the abundance of thy mercy and of thy compassions, that thou hast withholden thyself from us? <a href="/parallel/isaiah/63-15.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=13975" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/isaiah/63.htm">A Prayer for Mercy</a> 15<a href="/hebrew/5027.htm" title="5027: hab·bêṭ (V-Hifil-Imp-ms) -- To look. A primitive root; to scan, i.e. Look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care.">Look down</a> <a href="/hebrew/8064.htm" title="8064: miš·šā·ma·yim (Prep-m:: N-mp) -- Heaven, sky. Dual of an unused singular shameh; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky.">from heaven</a> <a href="/hebrew/7200.htm" title="7200: ū·rə·’êh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Imp-ms) -- To see. A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively.">and see,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6944.htm" title="6944: qāḏ·šə·ḵā (N-msc:: 2ms) -- Apartness, sacredness. From qadash; a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity.">from Your holy</a> <a href="/hebrew/8597.htm" title="8597: wə·ṯip̄·’ar·te·ḵā (Conj-w:: N-fsc:: 2ms) -- Beauty, glory. Or tiphereth; from pa'ar; ornament.">and glorious</a> <a href="/hebrew/2073.htm" title="2073: miz·zə·ḇul (Prep-m:: N-msc) -- Elevation, height, lofty abode. Or zbul; from zabal; a residence.">habitation.</a> <a href="/hebrew/346.htm" title="346: ’ay·yêh (Interrog) -- Where?. Prolonged from 'ay; where?.">Where</a> <a href="/hebrew/7068.htm" title="7068: qin·’ā·ṯə·ḵā (N-fsc:: 2ms) -- Ardor, zeal, jealousy. From qana'; jealousy or envy.">are Your zeal</a> <a href="/hebrew/1369.htm" title="1369: ū·ḡə·ḇū·rō·ṯe·ḵā (Conj-w:: N-fpc:: 2ms) -- Strength, might. Feminine passive participle from the same as gibbowr; force; by implication, valor, victory.">and might?</a> <a href="/hebrew/1995.htm" title="1995: hă·mō·wn (N-msc) -- A sound, murmur, roar, crowd, abundance. Or hamon; from hamah; a noise, tumult, crowd; also disquietude, wealth.">Your yearning</a> <a href="/hebrew/4578.htm" title="4578: mê·‘e·ḵā (N-mpc:: 2ms) -- Internal organs, inward parts, belly. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/7356.htm" title="7356: wə·ra·ḥă·me·ḵā (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 2ms) -- Compassion. From racham; compassion; by extension, the womb; by implication, a maiden.">and compassion</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’ê·lay (Prep:: 1cs) -- To, into, towards. ">for me</a> <a href="/hebrew/662.htm" title="662: hiṯ·’ap·pā·qū (V-Hitpael-Perf-3cp) -- To hold, be strong. A primitive root; to contain, i.e. Abstain.">are restrained.</a> 16Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/psalms/80-14.htm">Psalm 80:14-19</a> Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine— / the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself. / Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance. ... <a href="/deuteronomy/26-15.htm">Deuteronomy 26:15</a> Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.” <a href="/1_kings/8-30.htm">1 Kings 8:30</a> Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive. <a href="/psalms/33-13.htm">Psalm 33:13-14</a> The LORD looks down from heaven; He sees all the sons of men. / From His dwelling place He gazes on all who inhabit the earth. <a href="/psalms/123-1.htm">Psalm 123:1</a> A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven. <a href="/lamentations/3-50.htm">Lamentations 3:50</a> until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees. <a href="/2_chronicles/6-21.htm">2 Chronicles 6:21</a> Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive. <a href="/psalms/102-19.htm">Psalm 102:19-20</a> For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth / to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death, <a href="/psalms/14-2.htm">Psalm 14:2</a> The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God. <a href="/psalms/113-5.htm">Psalm 113:5-6</a> Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high? / He humbles Himself to behold the heavens and the earth. <a href="/exodus/32-11.htm">Exodus 32:11-12</a> But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? / Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people. <a href="/jeremiah/31-20.htm">Jeremiah 31:20</a> Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD. <a href="/psalms/89-49.htm">Psalm 89:49</a> Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David? <a href="/psalms/44-23.htm">Psalm 44:23-26</a> Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever. / Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression? / For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth. ... <a href="/psalms/25-6.htm">Psalm 25:6</a> Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the sounding of your bowels and of your mercies toward me? are they restrained?down<a href="/deuteronomy/26-15.htm">Deuteronomy 26:15</a> Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.<a href="/psalms/33-14.htm">Psalm 33:14</a> From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.<a href="/psalms/80-14.htm">Psalm 80:14</a> Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;the habitation<a href="/isaiah/57-15.htm">Isaiah 57:15</a> For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.<a href="/isaiah/66-1.htm">Isaiah 66:1</a> Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?<a href="/1_kings/8-27.htm">1 Kings 8:27</a> But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?where<a href="/isaiah/51-9.htm">Isaiah 51:9,10</a> Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? … <a href="/psalms/89-49.htm">Psalm 89:49</a> Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?sounding, or, multitude.<a href="/isaiah/63-9.htm">Isaiah 63:9</a> In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.<a href="/isaiah/49-15.htm">Isaiah 49:15</a> Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.<a href="/psalms/25-6.htm">Psalm 25:6</a> Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.are<a href="/psalms/77-7.htm">Psalm 77:7-9</a> Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? … <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/60-18.htm">Acts</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-5.htm">Attentively</a> <a href="/psalms/16-6.htm">Beauteous</a> <a href="/isaiah/60-13.htm">Beautiful</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-1.htm">Bowels</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-7.htm">Compassion</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-7.htm">Compassions</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-7.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-13.htm">Deep</a> <a href="/isaiah/61-1.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/isaiah/59-10.htm">Feeling</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-14.htm">Glorious</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-12.htm">Glory</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-12.htm">Habitation</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-4.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/isaiah/55-10.htm">Heaven</a> <a href="/isaiah/62-9.htm">Holiness</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-11.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-7.htm">House</a> <a href="/isaiah/57-15.htm">Lofty</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-7.htm">Mercies</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-1.htm">Mighty</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-20.htm">Moving</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-12.htm">Power</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-14.htm">Restrained</a> <a href="/isaiah/58-1.htm">Sounding</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-6.htm">Strength</a> <a href="/isaiah/53-2.htm">Tender</a> <a href="/isaiah/52-2.htm">Throne</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-2.htm">Towards</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-10.htm">Withheld</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-12.htm">Working</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-25.htm">Yearning</a> <a href="/isaiah/59-17.htm">Zeal</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/64-2.htm">Acts</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-9.htm">Attentively</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-19.htm">Beauteous</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-10.htm">Beautiful</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-19.htm">Bowels</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-23.htm">Compassion</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-22.htm">Compassions</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-18.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Deep</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-12.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-14.htm">Feeling</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-11.htm">Glorious</a> <a href="/isaiah/66-5.htm">Glory</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-10.htm">Habitation</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-17.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-17.htm">Heaven</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-18.htm">Holiness</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-18.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-10.htm">House</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-53.htm">Lofty</a> <a href="/jeremiah/16-5.htm">Mercies</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-15.htm">Mighty</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-19.htm">Moving</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-2.htm">Power</a> <a href="/isaiah/66-9.htm">Restrained</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-19.htm">Sounding</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-14.htm">Strength</a> <a href="/isaiah/66-14.htm">Tender</a> <a href="/isaiah/66-1.htm">Throne</a> <a href="/isaiah/66-14.htm">Towards</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-3.htm">Withheld</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-3.htm">Working</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-25.htm">Yearning</a> <a href="/ezekiel/5-13.htm">Zeal</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 63</div>1. <a href="/isaiah/63-1.htm">Christ shows who he is</a> 2. <a href="/isaiah/63-2.htm">What his victory over his enemies</a> 7. <a href="/isaiah/63-7.htm">And what his mercy toward his church</a> 10. <a href="/isaiah/63-10.htm">In his just wrath he remembers his free mercy</a> 15. <a href="/isaiah/63-15.htm">The church, in her prayer</a> 17. <a href="/isaiah/63-17.htm">And complaint, professes her faith</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The concept of God looking down from heaven is a recurring theme in Scripture, emphasizing His sovereignty and omniscience (<a href="/psalms/33-13.htm">Psalm 33:13-14</a>). Heaven is depicted as God's dwelling place, a realm of holiness and glory, distinct from the earthly realm. This plea reflects a deep yearning for divine intervention, reminiscent of the cries of the Israelites in Egypt (<a href="/exodus/2-23.htm">Exodus 2:23-25</a>).from Your holy and glorious habitation God's habitation is described as holy and glorious, underscoring His purity and majesty. The temple in Jerusalem was considered a reflection of this heavenly dwelling, a place where God's presence was manifest among His people (<a href="/1_kings/8-27.htm">1 Kings 8:27-30</a>). The holiness of God's habitation sets Him apart from the profane and emphasizes His role as the ultimate judge and redeemer. This phrase also anticipates the New Testament revelation of Jesus Christ, who embodies God's glory and holiness (<a href="/john/1-14.htm">John 1:14</a>).Where are Your zeal and might? The prophet questions the apparent absence of God's passionate commitment and power, which were historically demonstrated in acts of deliverance and judgment (<a href="/exodus/15-11.htm">Exodus 15:11-13</a>). Zeal and might are attributes often associated with God's intervention on behalf of Israel, as seen in the Exodus and the conquest of Canaan. This inquiry reflects a period of perceived divine silence or inaction, prompting the faithful to seek reassurance of God's continued involvement in their lives.Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained This phrase expresses a sense of divine withholding, where God's deep love and mercy seem limited or delayed. The Hebrew terms for yearning and compassion convey a profound emotional connection, akin to a parent's love for a child (<a href="/isaiah/49-15.htm">Isaiah 49:15</a>). The restraint of these attributes suggests a period of testing or judgment, possibly due to Israel's sin and rebellion. However, it also points to the hope of restoration, as God's compassion ultimately triumphs over judgment (<a href="/lamentations/3-22.htm">Lamentations 3:22-23</a>). This tension between divine justice and mercy is fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ, who embodies God's compassion and offers redemption to humanity (<a href="/matthew/9-36.htm">Matthew 9:36</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a> The prophet who authored the book, delivering messages from God to the people of Judah and Jerusalem. 2. <a href="/topical/h/heaven.htm">Heaven</a> The dwelling place of God, depicted as holy and glorious, from which God is asked to look down. 3. <a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a> The central figure being addressed, whose attributes of zeal, might, tenderness, and compassion are being sought. 4. <a href="/topical/j/judah_and_jerusalem.htm">Judah and Jerusalem</a> The primary audience of Isaiah's prophecy, experiencing a period of distress and seeking God's intervention.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_dwelling_and_sovereignty.htm">God's Dwelling and Sovereignty</a> Recognize that God is sovereign and dwells in a holy and glorious place, yet He is attentive to the cries of His people. <a href="/topical/a/attributes_of_god.htm">Attributes of God</a> Reflect on God's attributes of zeal, might, tenderness, and compassion. These are not just abstract qualities but are actively involved in His relationship with His people. <a href="/topical/t/the_human_condition_and_divine_response.htm">The Human Condition and Divine Response</a> Understand that feelings of divine distance or withheld compassion are part of the human experience, but they should lead us to earnest prayer and seeking God. <a href="/topical/p/prayer_as_a_response_to_distress.htm">Prayer as a Response to Distress</a> Use Isaiah's example to approach God in prayer, asking Him to reveal His power and compassion in our lives and circumstances. <a href="/topical/h/hope_in_god's_unchanging_nature.htm">Hope in God's Unchanging Nature</a> Trust in the consistency of God's character, knowing that His compassion and mercy are new every morning, even when they seem distant.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_63.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 63</a> <a href="/q/does_isaiah_63_15-16_question_god's_omnipresence.htm">In Isaiah 63:15–16, the prophet questions God’s absence—does this contradict the belief in God’s omnipresence throughout the Bible? </a> <a href="/q/why_so_much_space_if_god_made_it_for_us.htm">Why does the universe contain so much wasted space if God created it for humans?</a> <a href="/q/is_god_our_father.htm">Is God our Father?</a> <a href="/q/where_is_the_location_of_heaven.htm">Where is the location of Heaven?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/63.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(15) Look down from heaven . . .--The form of the prayer reminds us of <a href="/2_chronicles/6-21.htm" title="Listen therefore to the supplications of your servant, and of your people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear you from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.">2Chronicles 6:21</a>. Perhaps there is a latent remonstrance, as though Jehovah, like an Eastern king, had withdrawn to the recesses of His palace, and had ceased to manifest His care and pity for His people, as He had done of old.The sounding of thy bowels.--See Note on <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm" title="Why my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kirharesh.">Isaiah 16:11</a>. The words jar upon modern ears, but were to the Hebrew what "the sighs of thy heart" would be to us.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/63.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verses 15-19. - A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM SIN AND SUFFERING. From thanksgiving and confession, the people betake themselves to prayer, and beseech God to look down from heaven once more, to have compassion on them, to acknowledge them, and to save them alike from themselves (ver. 17) and from their adversaries (vers. 18, 19). "It is difficult to overrate the spiritual beauty of the prayer contained in this passage. We may admit that the most prominent motive urged by the speaker has a nationalistic air; but behind this, and strengthening it, is a sense of the infiniteness of the Divine mercy, and of the strong vitality of the union between Jehovah and his people" (Cheyne). Verse 15. - Look down from heaven (comp. <a href="/deuteronomy/26-15.htm">Deuteronomy 26:15</a>; <a href="/psalms/80-14.htm">Psalm 80:14</a>; <a href="/2_kings/8.htm">2 Kings 8</a>:30). "The Lord's seat" was "in heaven." While the temple lay in ruins, the Jews would naturally address their prayers to God in his heavenly abode. From the habitation of thy holiness. Mr. Cheyne translates, from the height of thy holiness," taking the meaning of the rare word z'bul from the Assyrian. "Height" certainly suits well most of the other places where the word z'bul occurs (<a href="/1_kings/8-13.htm">1 Kings 8:13</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/6-2.htm">2 Chronicles 6:2</a>; <a href="/psalms/49-14.htm">Psalm 49:14</a>; <a href="/habakkuk/3-11.htm">Habakkuk 3:11</a>). Where is thy zeal? i.e. What has become of it? Has it ceased altogether, or is it only in abeyance for a time? Will not God "stir it up" once more (<a href="/isaiah/42-13.htm">Isaiah 42:13</a>)? And thy strength; rather, and thy great acts (comp. <a href="/psalms/106-2.htm">Psalm 106:2</a>; <a href="/psalms/145-4.htm">Psalm 145:4</a>; <a href="/psalms/150-2.htm">Psalm 150:2</a>). The sounding of thy bowels; i.e. their thrilling or vibration - an indication of sympathy (see <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Isaiah 16:11</a>). Jeremiah has a similar expression (<a href="/jeremiah/31-20.htm">Jeremiah 31:20</a>). Are they restrained? rather, they are restrained. They no longer show themselves. There was no room for questioning the fact. <a href="/commentaries/isaiah/63-15.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Look down הַבֵּ֤ט (hab·bêṭ) Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5027.htm">Strong's 5027: </a> To scan, look intently at, to regard from heaven מִשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ (miš·šā·ma·yim) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8064.htm">Strong's 8064: </a> Heaven, sky and see, וּרְאֵ֔ה (ū·rə·’êh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7200.htm">Strong's 7200: </a> To see from Your holy קָדְשְׁךָ֖ (qāḏ·šə·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6944.htm">Strong's 6944: </a> A sacred place, thing, sanctity and glorious וְתִפְאַרְתֶּ֑ךָ (wə·ṯip̄·’ar·te·ḵā) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8597.htm">Strong's 8597: </a> Beauty, glory habitation. מִזְּבֻ֥ל (miz·zə·ḇul) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2073.htm">Strong's 2073: </a> Elevation, height, lofty abode Where אַיֵּ֤ה (’ay·yêh) Interrogative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_346.htm">Strong's 346: </a> Where? are Your zeal קִנְאָֽתְךָ֙ (qin·’ā·ṯə·ḵā) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7068.htm">Strong's 7068: </a> Ardor, zeal, jealousy and might? וּגְב֣וּרֹתֶ֔ךָ (ū·ḡə·ḇū·rō·ṯe·ḵā) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1369.htm">Strong's 1369: </a> Force, valor, victory Your yearning הֲמ֥וֹן (hă·mō·wn) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1995.htm">Strong's 1995: </a> A noise, tumult, crowd, disquietude, wealth and compassion וְֽרַחֲמֶ֖יךָ (wə·ra·ḥă·me·ḵā) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7356.htm">Strong's 7356: </a> Compassion, the womb, a maiden for me אֵלַ֥י (’ê·lay) Preposition | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to are restrained. הִתְאַפָּֽקוּ׃ (hiṯ·’ap·pā·qū) Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_662.htm">Strong's 662: </a> To contain, abstain <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/63-15.htm">Isaiah 63:15 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/isaiah/63-15.htm">Isaiah 63:15 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/isaiah/63-15.htm">Isaiah 63:15 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/isaiah/63-15.htm">Isaiah 63:15 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/isaiah/63-15.htm">Isaiah 63:15 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/63-15.htm">Isaiah 63:15 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/63-15.htm">Isaiah 63:15 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/63-15.htm">Isaiah 63:15 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/63-15.htm">Isaiah 63:15 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/isaiah/63-15.htm">Isaiah 63:15 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-15.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 63:15 Look down from heaven and see from (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/63-14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 63:14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 63:14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/63-16.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 63:16"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 63:16" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>