5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
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But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, …
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here, I. The petition is that God would appear wonderfully for them now, Isa. 63:1 , 2 . Their case was represented in the close of the foregoing chapter as very sad and very hard, and in this case it was time to cry, “Help, Lord; O that God would manifest his zeal and his strength!” They had prayed (Isa. 63:15) that God would look down from heaven ; here they pray that he would come down to deliv…
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