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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 64 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/64.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/64-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</a> > Isaiah 64</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/63.htm" title="Isaiah 63">◄</a> Isaiah 64 <a href="../isaiah/65.htm" title="Isaiah 65">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/isaiah/64.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Prayer for Mercy and Help</p><CC><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/64-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Oh, that You would tear open the heavens and come down, <t><p class="indent1">That the mountains might quake at Your presence-- <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/64-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>As [sure as] fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil-- <t><p class="indent1">To make Your name known to Your adversaries, <t><p class="indent1">That the nations may tremble at Your presence! <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/64-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When You did awesome <i>and</i> amazing things which we did not expect, <t><p class="indent1">You came down [at Sinai]; the mountains quaked at Your presence. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/64-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For from days of old no one has heard, nor has ear perceived, <t><p class="indent1">Nor has the eye <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>seen a God besides You, <t><p class="indent1">Who works <i>and</i> acts in behalf of the one who [gladly] waits for Him. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/64-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You meet him who rejoices in doing that which is morally right, <t><p class="indent1">Who remembers You in Your ways. <t><p class="indent1">Indeed, You were angry, for we sinned; <t><p class="indent1"><i>We have</i> long <i>continued</i> in our sins [prolonging Your anger]. <t><p class="indent1">And shall we be saved [under such circumstances]? <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/64-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For we all have become like one who is [ceremonially] unclean [like a leper], <t><p class="indent1">And all our deeds of righteousness are like filthy rags; <t><p class="indent1">We all wither <i>and</i> decay like a leaf, <t><p class="indent1">And our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing], like the wind, takes us away [carrying us far from God’s favor, toward destruction]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/64-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>There is no one who calls on Your name, <t><p class="indent1">Who awakens <i>and</i> causes himself to take hold of You; <t><p class="indent1">For You have hidden Your face from us <t><p class="indent1">And have handed us over to the [consuming and destructive] power of our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing]. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/64-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Yet, O LORD, You are our Father; <t><p class="indent1">We are the clay, and You our Potter, <t><p class="indent1">And we all are the work of Your hand. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/64-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD, <t><p class="indent1">Do not remember our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing] forever. <t><p class="indent1">Now look, consider, for we are all Your people. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/64-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>Your holy cities have become a wilderness, <t><p class="indent1">Zion has become a wilderness, <t><p class="indent1">Jerusalem a desolation. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/64-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Our holy and beautiful house [the temple built by Solomon], <t><p class="indent1">Where our fathers praised You, <t><p class="indent1">Has been burned by fire; <t><p class="indent1">And all our precious objects are in ruins. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/64-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Considering these [tragedies], will You restrain Yourself, O LORD [and not help us]? <t><p class="indent1">Will You keep silent and humiliate <i>and</i> oppress us beyond measure?<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i>seen, O God, besides You,</i> what <i>He will do....</i> The ancient rabbis favored this translation or a variation of it, and some suggested that the unexpressed object (<i>what)</i> is wine preserved since the creation, or Eden. They all applied this verse to the future that follows the millennial kingdom, and was mostly a mystery to them. Heaven, or specifically the New Jerusalem, that follows the kingdom was partially revealed to John in Revelation. There is a story in the Talmud that when King Ahasuerus held a great banquet in Susa for seven days (Esth 1:5), he arrogantly asked the Jews if God could do better for them than that. They quoted this line to him in reply, and said that in the time to come if God provided nothing better for them than this feast, they could tell Him that they had already enjoyed such a feast at the table of Ahasuerus.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> After the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in A.D. 70 it became a religious tradition among the rabbis to recite vv 10 and 11 and to rip a tear in their robes whenever they saw the ruins.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/63.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 63"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 63" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/65.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 65"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 65" /></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 align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>