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Isaiah 64:12 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 64 · verse 12
Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?Isaiah 64:12 · King James Version
Isaiah 64:12 in context
10Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- refrainʼâphaqto containH662 →
- afflictʻânâhto depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitiveH6031 →
- peacechâshâhto hush or keep quietH2814 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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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,…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-12