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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 64:5 - 64:5
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meetest - that is, Thou makest peace, or enterest into covenant with him (see on Isa 47:3).
rejoiceth and worketh - that is, who with joyful willingness worketh [Gesenius] (Act 10:35; Joh 7:17).
those - Thou meetest “those,” in apposition to “him” who represents a class whose characteristics “those that,” etc., more fully describes.
remember thee in thy ways - (Isa 26:8).
sinned - literally, “tripped,” carrying on the figure in “ways.”
in those is continuance - a plea to deprecate the continuance of God’s wrath; it is not in Thy wrath that there is continuance (Isa 54:7, Isa 54:8; Psa 30:5; Psa 103:9), but in Thy ways (“those”), namely, of covenant mercy to Thy people (Mic 7:18-20; Mal 3:6); on the strength of the everlasting continuance of His covenant they infer by faith, “we shall be saved.” God “remembered” for them His covenant (Psa 106:45), though they often “remembered not” Him (Psa 78:42). Castellio translates, “we have sinned for long in them (‘thy ways’), and could we then be saved?” But they hardly would use such a plea when their very object was to be saved.