Matthew Poole Commentary - Isaiah 64:8

Matthew Poole Commentary - Isaiah 64:8 - 64:8

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Isaiah 64:8 - 64:8

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64:6 - 64:6
64:7 - 64:7
64:8 - 64:8
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64:12 - 64:12

But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; an argument or pathetical plea for pity; or, Notwithstanding all this, thou art our Father, both by creation and by adoption, therefore pity us thy children.

We are the clay; a metonymy of the matter, clay for the vessels made of clay; or, we are clay, pointing at our original matter; or it may relate to their state, that God framed them in a body civil and ecclesiastical, out of a confused multitude; they plead at the same time their own frailty, why they would be pitied; and God’s covenant interest in them, why he should pity them.

We all are the work of thy hand; another argument of the same nature with the former, Psa_138:8, not only as men, but as a body of men made thy peculiar.