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Isaiah 64:12 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? "
Isaiah 64:12
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Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
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Isaiah 64:1
"Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,"
Isaiah 64:2
"As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!"
Isaiah 64:3
"When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence."
Isaiah 64:4
"For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth"
Isaiah 64:5
"Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved."
Isaiah 64:6
"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."
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