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Isaiah 64 — Sermon Preparation
A corporate lament pleads for the Lord to rend the heavens and come down, confessing that all righteousness is like a polluted garment. Below is a research summary for Isaiah 64, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 11
- verses
- 128 / 89
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 7
- classic sermon excerpts
- 5
- preachers & commentators
Isaiah 64 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עָוֺן | ʻâvôn | H5771 | 3 | perversity, evil |
| אֵשׁ | ʼêsh | H784 | 3 | fire |
| קָצַף | qâtsaph | H7107 | 2 | crack, burst |
| זָכַר | zâkar | H2142 | 2 | mark, remember |
| מִדְבָּר | midbâr | H4057 | 2 | pasture, desert |
| עוֹלָם | ʻôwlâm | H5769 | 2 | concealed, vanishing |
| קֹדֶשׁ | qôdesh | H6944 | 2 | sacred, sanctity |
How preachers through history handled this text
7 public-domain excerpts on Isaiah 64, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“HOW TO MEET GOD Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember Thee in Thy ways.'--ISAIAH lxiv. 5. The prophet here shows us how there is a great staircase which we ourselves build, which leads straight from earth to heaven, and how we can secure that we shall meet with God and God with us. Isaiah' is often called the evangelical prophet. …”
— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah, on Isaiah 64:5–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jerusalem— Isa 64:10
- Zion— Isa 64:10
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