New International VersionNo one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and have given us over to our sins.
New Living TranslationYet no one calls on your name or pleads with you for mercy. Therefore, you have turned away from us and turned us over to our sins.
English Standard VersionThere is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.
Berean Standard BibleNo one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
King James BibleAnd there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
New King James VersionAnd there is no one who calls on Your name, Who stirs himself up to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us, And have consumed us because of our iniquities.
New American Standard BibleThere is no one who calls on Your name, Who stirs himself to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us And have surrendered us to the power of our wrongdoings.
NASB 1995There is no one who calls on Your name, Who arouses himself to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us And have delivered us into the power of our iniquities.
NASB 1977And there is no one who calls on Thy name, Who arouses himself to take hold of Thee; For Thou hast hidden Thy face from us, And hast delivered us into the power of our iniquities.
Legacy Standard BibleThere is no one who calls on Your name, Who awakens himself to take hold of You, For You have hidden Your face from us And have melted us into the hand of our iniquities.
Amplified BibleThere is no one who calls on Your name, Who awakens and causes himself to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us And have handed us over to the [consuming and destructive] power of our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing].
Christian Standard BibleNo one calls on your name, striving to take hold of you. For you have hidden your face from us and made us melt because of our iniquity.
Holman Christian Standard BibleNo one calls on Your name, striving to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and made us melt because of our iniquity.
American Standard VersionAnd there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.
Contemporary English VersionNo one worships in your name or remains faithful. You have turned your back on us and let our sins melt us away.
English Revised VersionAnd there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.
GOD'S WORD® TranslationNo one calls on your name or tries to hold on to you. You have hidden your face from us. You have let us be ruined by our sins.
Good News TranslationNo one turns to you in prayer; no one goes to you for help. You have hidden yourself from us and have abandoned us because of our sins.
International Standard VersionThere is no one who calls on your name or rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have given us into the control of our iniquity.
NET BibleNo one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.
New Heart English BibleThere is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
Webster's Bible TranslationAnd there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. Majority Text Translations Majority Standard BibleNo one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
World English BibleThere is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd there is none calling on Your Name, "" Stirring himself up to lay hold on You, "" For You have hid Your face from us, "" And You melt us away by our iniquities.
Young's Literal Translation And there is none calling in Thy name, Stirring up himself to lay hold on Thee, For Thou hast hid Thy face from us, And thou meltest us away by our iniquities.
Smith's Literal TranslationAnd none calling upon thy name, none rousing himself to take hold upon thee: for thou hiddest thy face from us, and thou wilt melt us by the hand of our iniquities. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThere is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.
Catholic Public Domain VersionThere is no one who calls upon your name, who rises up and holds fast to you. You have concealed your face from us, and you have crushed us with the hand of our own iniquity.
New American BibleThere are none who call upon your name, none who rouse themselves to take hold of you; For you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us up to our crimes.
New Revised Standard VersionThere is no one who calls on your name, or attempts to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThere is none that calls upon thy name, that remembers to take hold of thee; for thou hast turned away thy face from us, and hast delivered us into the power of our sins.
Peshitta Holy Bible TranslatedAnd there is none who calls on your name and who remembers to hold fast to you, because you turned your face from us and you have handed us over into the hand of our sins OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And there is none that calleth upon Thy name, That stirreth up himself to take hold of Thee; For Thou hast hid Thy face from us, And hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.
Brenton Septuagint TranslationAnd there is none that calls upon thy name, or that remembers to take hold on thee: for thou hast turned thy face away from us, and hast delivered us up because of our sins.
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Context A Prayer for God's Power… 6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind. 7Noone callson Your nameor strivesto take holdof You.ForYou have hiddenYour facefrom usand delivered usinto the handof our iniquity.8But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.…
Cross References Psalm 14:3All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
Romans 3:11-12There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. / All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
Jeremiah 10:21For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.
Hosea 7:7All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.
Psalm 53:3All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
Romans 3:9-10What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin. / As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
Lamentations 5:20-22Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long? / Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old, / unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
Ezekiel 22:30I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.
Psalm 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
2 Chronicles 15:2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
Zephaniah 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
Psalm 79:8-9Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low. / Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.
1 Peter 3:12For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
2 Timothy 3:4-5traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, / having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
Jeremiah 2:27say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’
Treasury of Scripture And there is none that calls on your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities. there is Isaiah 50:2
Wherefore, when I came,was there no man? when I called,was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, becausethere is no water, and dieth for thirst. Isaiah 59:16
And he saw thatthere was no man, and wondered thatthere was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. Psalm 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my peopleas they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD. to take Isaiah 27:5
Or let him take hold of my strength,that he may make peace with me;and he shall make peace with me. Isaiah 56:4
For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choosethe things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; hast hid Isaiah 57:17
For 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. Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidhis face from you, that he will not hear. Deuteronomy 31:17
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our Godis not among us? consumed. Jeremiah 9:7
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? Ezekiel 22:18-22
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all theyare brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they areeven the dross of silver… Ezekiel 24:11
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, andthat the filthiness of it may be molten in it,that the scum of it may be consumed. because. Job 8:4
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; Jump to Previous ArousesCallsCausedConsumedDeliveredEarthFaceHandHidHiddenHoldIniquitiesLayMakerMeansMeltMeltestPowerStirrethStirringStirsStrivesWasteJump to Next ArousesCallsCausedConsumedDeliveredEarthFaceHandHidHiddenHoldIniquitiesLayMakerMeansMeltMeltestPowerStirrethStirringStirsStrivesWasteIsaiah 64 1.The church prays for the illustration of God's power4.Celebrating God's mercy, it makes confession of their natural corruptions9.It complains of their afflictionsNo one calls on Your nameThis phrase reflects a spiritual apathy and neglect of seeking God, which was prevalent among the Israelites during Isaiah's time. The name of God represents His character and presence, and calling on His name signifies a relationship and dependence on Him. This lack of calling on God can be seen as a fulfillment of the warnings given in Deuteronomy 31:16-18, where God foretells that the Israelites would turn to other gods and He would hide His face from them. The absence of calling on God's name indicates a breakdown in the covenant relationship, similar to the spiritual condition described in Psalm 14:2-3, where none seek God. or strives to take hold of You.
This phrase suggests a lack of effort or desire to pursue a relationship with God. In the cultural context of ancient Israel, striving to take hold of God would involve prayer, worship, and adherence to His commandments. The imagery of taking hold can be seen inGenesis 32:26, where Jacob wrestles with God and refuses to let go until he receives a blessing. This striving indicates a fervent pursuit of God's presence and favor, which is absent in the people Isaiah addresses. The New Testament echoes this call to actively seek God in passages likeJames 4:8, which encourages believers to draw near to God. For You have hidden Your face from us
The hiding of God's face is a metaphor for His withdrawal of favor and presence, often as a response to the people's sin and disobedience. This concept is rooted in the covenantal relationship between God and Israel, where blessings and curses were contingent upon their faithfulness (Deuteronomy 28). The hiding of God's face is a form of divine judgment, as seen in passages likeEzekiel 39:23-24, where God hides His face due to Israel's unfaithfulness. This withdrawal is not permanent but serves as a call to repentance and restoration. and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
This phrase indicates that God has allowed the people to experience the consequences of their sins. The "hand of our iniquity" suggests being overpowered or controlled by their own sinful actions, leading to suffering and judgment. This concept is consistent with the principle of sowing and reaping found inGalatians 6:7-8, where individuals face the outcomes of their actions. Historically, this can be seen in the Babylonian exile, where the Israelites were taken captive due to their persistent idolatry and disobedience. Theologically, it underscores the need for repentance and reliance on God's mercy for deliverance from sin. Persons / Places / Events 1. IsaiahThe prophet who authored the book, delivering messages from God to the people of Judah and Jerusalem. 2. GodThe central figure in this verse, whose face is hidden from the people due to their iniquity. 3. The People of IsraelThe recipients of Isaiah's message, who are experiencing a period of spiritual decline and separation from God. 4. IniquityThe sin and moral failing that have caused a separation between the people and God. 5. The ExileAlthough not directly mentioned in this verse, the context of Isaiah often relates to the Babylonian exile, a period of judgment and reflection for the Israelites. Teaching Points The Consequence of SinSin creates a barrier between us and God, leading to spiritual desolation and separation. The Importance of Seeking GodActively calling on God's name and striving to take hold of Him is crucial for maintaining a close relationship with Him. God's Hidden FaceWhen God hides His face, it is often a response to persistent sin, urging us to repent and seek His presence. Personal ResponsibilityEach believer has a responsibility to seek God and repent from iniquity, rather than waiting passively for change. Hope for RestorationDespite the separation caused by sin, there is always hope for restoration through repentance and seeking God earnestly. Lists and Questions Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 64
What defines true righteousness according to the Bible?
Matthew 1:22-23 - Does Isaiah 7:14 really foretell Jesus's birth, or was that prophecy intended for a different context?
According to Isaiah 53:7, the servant remains silent when oppressed, yet in the Gospels Jesus speaks during his trials--how do we reconcile this contradiction?
What does iniquity mean?(7) Hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.--Better, hast delivered us into the hand( scil.,the power) of our iniquities.The previous clause had pointed to the people s forgetfulness of God--what we should call their indifference--as the root-evil. This states that that sin led, in the righteous judgment of God, to open iniquities. The thought is parallel to that of Romans 1:21-24. Verse 7. - There is none that calleth on thy Name. A hyperbole, like Psalm 19:1, 3, "There is none that doeth good, no, not one." A general lethargy and apathy had come over the people, so that they could with difficulty rouse themselves to faith and calling upon God. But this general lethargy was not universal; there was a "remnant" which " prayed and did not faint." That stirreth up himself to take hold of thee. This expresses more than mere prayer; it is earnest, intense, "effectual fervent" prayer. Perhaps none among the exiles may have been capable of such supplication as this, especially as God had hid his face from them, and no longer looked on them with favour. And hast consumed us, because of our iniquities; rather, and hast delivered us into the power (literally, hand) of our iniquities. Men's sins are their masters, and exercise a tyrannical control over them, which they are often quite unable to resist (comp. Ezekiel 33:10, "If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?"). God at times judicially delivers the wicked into the power of their sins (see Romans 1:24, 26, 28).
Parallel Commentaries ...
Hebrew Noוְאֵין־(wə·’ên-)Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 369:A non-entity, a negative particleone callsקוֹרֵ֣א(qō·w·rê)Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7121:To call, proclaim, readon Your nameבְשִׁמְךָ֔(ḇə·šim·ḵā)Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8034:A name[or] strivesמִתְעוֹרֵ֖ר(miṯ·‘ō·w·rêr)Verb - Hitpael - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5782:To rouse oneself, awaketo take hold of You.לְהַחֲזִ֣יק(lə·ha·ḥă·zîq)Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 2388:To fasten upon, to seize, be strong, obstinate, to bind, restrain, conquerForכִּֽי־(kî-)Conjunction
Strong's 3588:A relative conjunctionYou have hiddenהִסְתַּ֤רְתָּ(his·tar·tā)Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5641:To hide, concealYour faceפָנֶ֙יךָ֙(p̄ā·ne·ḵā)Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6440:The facefrom usמִמֶּ֔נּוּ(mim·men·nū)Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's 4480:A part of, from, out ofand made us meltוַתְּמוּגֵ֖נוּ(wat·tə·mū·ḡê·nū)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common plural
Strong's 4127:To meltin the handבְּיַד־(bə·yaḏ-)Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 3027:A handof our iniquity.עֲוֺנֵֽנוּ׃(‘ă·wō·nê·nū)Noun - common singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 5771:Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity
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