Isaiah 64:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

Isaiah 64:12 —

Old words in this verse

sore: — greatly, very (as in "sore afraid").

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 42:14
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
Psalms 74:10-11
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? …
Psalms 83:1
A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Psalms 74:18-19
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. …
Zechariah 1:12
Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Blessing Enquiring of God Importunity Intercession Jesus, the Christ Mediation Prayer

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-12)

As we have the Lamentations of Jeremiah, so here we have the Lamentations of Isaiah; the subject of both is the same—the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans and the sin of Israel that brought that destruction—only with this difference, Isaiah sees it at a distance and laments it by the Spirit of prophecy, Jeremiah saw it accomplished. In these verses, I. The people of God in their affliction…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. for these things--Wilt Thou, notwithstanding these calamities of Thy people, still refuse Thy aid (Is 42:14)?