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Isaiah 64:10 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. "
Isaiah 64:10
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8 But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.
9 Don’t be furious, LORD. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burned with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste.
12 Will you hold yourself back for these things, LORD? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?
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Isaiah 64:1
"Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence—"
Isaiah 64:2
"as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the water to boil. Make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!"
Isaiah 64:3
"When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence."
Isaiah 64:4
"For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him."
Isaiah 64:5
"You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?"
Isaiah 64:6
"For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away."
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