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Isaiah 64:9–10

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¶ Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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From verse 9

  1. Micah 7:18–20Rank 1 from verse 9
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    18Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

    19He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

    20Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

  2. Psalms 74:1–2Rank 2 from verse 9
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    1O GOD, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

    2Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

  3. Psalms 79:13Rank 3 from verse 9
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    13So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.

  4. 2 Peter 2:17Rank 4 from verse 9
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    17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

  5. Habakkuk 3:2Rank 5 from verse 9
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    2O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

  6. Isaiah 43:25Rank 6 from verse 9
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    25I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

  7. Isaiah 57:17Rank 7 from verse 9
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    17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

  8. Isaiah 60:10Rank 8 from verse 9
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    10And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

  9. Isaiah 63:19Rank 9 from verse 9
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    19We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.

  10. Jeremiah 10:24Rank 10 from verse 9
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    24O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

  11. Jeremiah 3:12Rank 11 from verse 9
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    12¶ Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever.

  12. Lamentations 5:20Rank 12 from verse 9
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    20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

  13. Malachi 1:4Rank 13 from verse 9
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    4Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.

  14. Psalms 119:94Rank 14 from verse 9
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    94I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.

  15. Psalms 38:1Rank 15 from verse 9
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    1O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

  16. Psalms 6:1Rank 16 from verse 9
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    1O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

  17. Psalms 79:5–9Rank 17 from verse 9
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    5How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

    6Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

    7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

    8O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

    9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.

  18. Revelation 20:10Rank 18 from verse 9
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    10And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

From verse 10

  1. Isaiah 1:7Rank 1 from verse 10
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    7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

  2. Luke 21:24Rank 2 from verse 10
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    24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

  3. 2 Chronicles 36:19–21Rank 3 from verse 10
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    19And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

    20And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

    21To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

  4. 2 Kings 25:9Rank 4 from verse 10
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    9And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.

  5. Daniel 12:7Rank 5 from verse 10
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    7And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

  6. Daniel 9:26–27Rank 6 from verse 10
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    26And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

    27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

  7. Lamentations 1:1–4Rank 7 from verse 10
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    1HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

    2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

    3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

    4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

  8. Lamentations 2:4–8Rank 8 from verse 10
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    4He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

    5The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

    6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

    7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.

    8The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

  9. Lamentations 5:18Rank 9 from verse 10
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    18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

  10. Micah 3:12Rank 10 from verse 10
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    12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  11. Psalms 79:1–7Rank 11 from verse 10
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    1O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

    2The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

    3Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

    4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

    5How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

    6Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

    7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

  12. Revelation 11:1–2Rank 12 from verse 10
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    1AND there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

    2But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

  13. Luke 21:21Rank 13 from verse 10
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    21Then let them which are in Judæa flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.

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Isaiah 64:9

COMBINED MEANING

very

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Sense 1: Truly, actually, exactly, or the same in identity. Sense 2: To a great or marked degree, used to intensify the quality named.

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sore

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Sense 1: Painful, grievous, severe, or causing distress. Sense 2: Greatly, exceedingly, or intensely. Sense 3: A wound, ulcer, or tender or diseased place.

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neither

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1. Also not; nor, introducing or joining a further negative statement or prohibition. 2. Not either, or none, of the alternatives named, commonly in a neither ... nor construction.

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remember

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1. To retain in mind or call back to mind; to recall. 2. To keep in mind with heed, observance, commemoration, or corresponding action. 3. To take account of a person, promise, deed, sin, or need and act with regard to it.

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iniquity

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Wickedness, unrighteousness, transgression, or sin; the guilt or burden of such wrongdoing.

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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for ever

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1. Without end; for all time. 2. Continually or permanently throughout the duration in view.

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ever

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At any time; always or continually; throughout all time or for ever.

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behold

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1. Used as an attention word or command directing someone to look at or take notice of the person, thing, statement, or event presented: look; see; take notice. 2. As a verb, to look upon, see, observe, or witness.

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see

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Sense 1: To perceive or behold with the eyes or in a vision. Sense 2: To observe, examine, discover, ascertain, consider, understand, know, or recognize. Sense 3: To visit, meet, converse with, or be in the presence of. Sense 4: To experience, undergo, endure, or enjoy. Sense 5: To attend to, take care, ensure, or beware.

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

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Isaiah 64:10

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holy

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Sense 1: Morally pure, righteous, undefiled, and separate from evil; supremely so of God. Sense 2: Hallowed, consecrated, set apart, devoted, or belonging to God or sacred use; distinguished from what is common, profane, or unclean.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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wilderness

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Uncultivated, desolate, sparsely inhabited, or uninhabited land; a desert, wild country, or solitary region.

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desolation

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Devastation or ruin; the state or result of being laid waste, emptied, or left without inhabitants.

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64:8But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

64:9¶ Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

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64:10Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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64:11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

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