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Isaiah 64:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

No one calls on your name, striving to take hold of you. For you have hidden your face from us and made us melt because of  , our iniquity.

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I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall  and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it,  but I found no one.


They do not cry to me from their hearts; rather, they wail on their beds. They slash themselves  , for grain and new wine; they turn away from me.


He saw that there was no man – he was amazed that there was no one interceding; so his own arm brought salvation, and his own righteousness supported him.


All of them are as hot as an oven, and they consume their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls on me.


But your iniquities  are separating you from your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not listen.


In a surge of anger I hid my face  from you for a moment, but I will have compassion on you with everlasting love,’ says the Lord your Redeemer.


Why was no one there when I came? Why was there no one to answer when I called? Is my arm too weak to redeem? Or do I have no power to rescue? Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke; I turn the rivers into a wilderness; their fish rot because of lack of water and die of thirst.


Or let it take hold of my strength; let it make peace with me – make peace with me.


I will depart and return to my place until they recognise their guilt and seek my face; they will search for me in their distress.


Set the empty pot on its coals so that it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt inside it; its corrosion will be consumed.


Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says: I am about to refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of my dear   people?


No one makes claims justly; no one pleads honestly. They trust in empty and worthless words; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.


Because of his sinful greed I was angry, so I struck him; I was angry and hid; but he went on turning back to the desires of his heart.


For the Lord says this: ‘For the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose what pleases me, and hold firmly to my covenant,


When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.


Since your children sinned against him, he gave them over to their rebellion.


Why should the Egyptians say, “He brought them out with an evil intent to kill them in the mountains and eliminate them from the face of the earth”? Turn from your fierce anger and relent concerning this disaster planned for your people.


Please remember that you formed me like clay. Will you now return me to dust?


‘Woe to the one who argues with his Maker – one clay pot among many. Does clay say to the one forming it, “What are you making? ” Or does your work say, “He has no hands”?


Yet you are our Father, even though Abraham does not know us and Israel doesn’t recognise us. You, Lord, are our Father; your name is Our Redeemer from Ancient Times.


‘A son honours his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me?  says the Lord of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.’ Yet you ask, ‘How have we despised your name? ’


Don’t all of us have one Father?  Didn’t one God create us?  Why then do we act treacherously against one another,  profaning  the covenant of our ancestors?





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