Prayer for Illustration of God's Power
1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5 Thou 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.
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7 And 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.
8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
64:3 страшные дела. Исаия обращается к истории исхода (Втор 10:21; Пс 65:3−6; Пс 105:22).
64:4 Этот стих обобщает одно из важнейших богословских положений ВЗ (43:11; Втор 4:35).
64:6 Все мы... как запачканная одежда. Народ Божий сознает свою греховность (53:6) и духовную нечистоту (Лев 13:45; Агг 2:13−14).
поблекли... уносят нас. Исаия вновь говорит о праведном суде Божием (1:30; 40:7, 24).
64:8 Отец наш. См. ком. к 63:16.
64:9 Не гневайся. В основе этого прошения лежит обетование из 54:7−8.
не вечно помни. Слова этой молитвы восходят к обетованию из 43:25.
64:10 Города святыни Твоей. Города Иудеи (ср. Пс 77:61).
64:11 Дом освящения нашего... сожжен огнем. Свидетельство разрушения иерусалимского храма в 586 г. до Р.Х.