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King James Version

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Church;   Intercession;   Temple;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Affliction, Prayer under;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Temple, Solomon's;   Wailing-Place, Jews';   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nehemiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Children (Sons) of God;   Micah, Book of;   Righteousness;   Servant of the Lord;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Servant of Yahweh (the Lord);  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Our ancestors worshiped you in our holy Temple. That wonderful Temple has now been burned. All our precious possessions have been destroyed.
New Living Translation
The holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned down, and all the things of beauty are destroyed.
Update Bible Version
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
New Century Version
Our ancestors worshiped you in our holy and wonderful Temple, but now it has been burned with fire, and all our precious things have been destroyed.
New English Translation
Our holy temple, our pride and joy, the place where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire; all our prized possessions have been destroyed.
Webster's Bible Translation
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
World English Bible
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
Amplified Bible
Our holy and beautiful house [the temple built by Solomon], Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And all our precious objects are in ruins.
English Standard Version
Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the hous of oure halewyng and of oure glorie, where oure fadris herieden thee, is maad in to brennyng of fier; and alle oure desirable thingis ben turned in to fallyngis.
English Revised Version
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Berean Standard Bible
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
Contemporary English Version
Zion's glorious and holy temple where our ancestors praised you has been destroyed by fire. Our beautiful buildings are now a pile of ruins.
American Standard Version
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
Bible in Basic English
Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai , after all this, will you still hold back? Will you still stay silent and punish us past endurance?
Darby Translation
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up with fire, and all our precious things are laid waste.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Wilt Thou refrain Thyself for these things, O LORD? Wilt Thou hold Thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
King James Version (1611)
Our holy and our beautifull house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt vp with fire, and all our pleasant things are layed waste:
New Life Bible
Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised You, has been burned by fire. And all our things of great worth have been destroyed.
New Revised Standard
Our holy and beautiful house, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The House of our Sanctuarie & of our glorie, where our fathers praysed thee, is burnt vp with fire and all our pleasant things are wasted.
George Lamsa Translation
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised thee, is consumed with fire; and all our pleasant possessions are laid waste.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Our holy and our beautiful house Where our fathers praised thee, Hath become a conflagration, - And, all our delightful places, are in ruins!
Douay-Rheims Bible
The house of our holiness, and of our glory, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely things are turned into ruins.
Revised Standard Version
Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Our holy house whiche is our beautie where our fathers praysed thee, is brent vp: yea, all our commodities and pleasures are wasted away.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burnt with fire: and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.
Good News Translation
and our Temple, the sacred and beautiful place where our ancestors praised you, has been destroyed by fire. All the places we loved are in ruins.
Christian Standard Bible®
Our holy and beautiful temple,where our fathers praised you,has been burned down,and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
Hebrew Names Version
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
Lexham English Bible
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our ancestors praised you has been burned by fire, and all our precious objects have become ruins.
Literal Translation
The house of our holiness and our beauty where our fathers praised You has become a burning of fire, and all our pleasant things have become a ruin.
Young's Literal Translation
Our holy and our beautiful house, Where praise Thee did our fathers, Hath become burnt with fire, And all our desirable things have become a waste.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Oure holy house which is oure bewty, where oure fathers praysed the, is brent vp, yee all oure comodities and pleasures are waysted awaye.
New American Standard Bible
Our holy and beautiful house, Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And all our precious things have become a ruin.
New King James Version
Our holy and beautiful temple, Where our fathers praised You, Is burned up with fire; And all our pleasant things are laid waste.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Our holy and beautiful house, Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And all our precious things have become a ruin.
Legacy Standard Bible
Our holy and glorious house,Where our fathers praised You,Has been burned by fire;And all our precious things have become a waste place.

Contextual Overview

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?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

holy: 2 Kings 25:9, 2 Chronicles 36:19, Psalms 74:5-7, Jeremiah 52:13, Lamentations 2:7, Ezekiel 7:20, Ezekiel 7:21, Ezekiel 24:21, Ezekiel 24:25, Matthew 24:2

where: 1 Kings 8:14, 1 Kings 8:56, 2 Chronicles 6:4, 2 Chronicles 7:3, 2 Chronicles 7:6, 2 Chronicles 29:25-30

all our: Lamentations 1:7, Lamentations 1:10, Lamentations 1:11

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 9:8 - at 1 Chronicles 22:5 - exceeding Nehemiah 1:3 - the wall Psalms 5:7 - thy holy temple Psalms 74:3 - the perpetual Psalms 74:7 - cast fire into thy sanctuary Psalms 79:7 - laid Isaiah 48:2 - they call Isaiah 63:18 - our Jeremiah 7:14 - as Jeremiah 32:29 - and set Jeremiah 44:2 - a desolation Lamentations 2:1 - the beauty Lamentations 2:6 - he hath violently Lamentations 2:15 - Is this Ezekiel 5:14 - I will Ezekiel 12:20 - General Ezekiel 16:13 - and thou wast Ezekiel 36:4 - a prey Luke 13:35 - your Luke 21:6 - there 1 Corinthians 3:17 - destroy

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Our holy and our beautiful house,.... Meaning the temple, the house of God, as Aben Ezra: called "holy", because dedicated to holy uses; where the holy sacrifices were offered up, the holy service of God performed; and where the holy God granted his presence, and where were the symbols of it: and "beautiful", in its building, as the first temple was that was built by Solomon; but here the second temple is meant, built by Zerubbabel, which being repaired and beautified by Herod, was a very beautiful building; and the Jews say d, that

"he who has not seen the building of Herod has never seen a beautiful building;''

or it may be rendered, "the house of our holiness, and of our glory" e; where their holy services were performed, and which was the glory of their nation, and on which they gloried and boasted:

where our fathers praised thee: with psalms and songs; the singers in the temple, as Aben Ezra; and the priests and all the people also, who, by their various services, as well as songs, gave praise and glory to God in this place; they do not mention their own services and praises, which they had been very negligent of, or not sincerely performed; but their fathers, which had been acceptable to the Lord, and therefore would bear mentioning when theirs would not: now this place, in which the glory of God and the interest of his people were concerned,

is burnt up with fire; this is true, as Kimchi observes, both of the first and second temple; the first was burnt with fire by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Jeremiah 52:13, and the second by the Romans under Titus the man emperor, as Josephus f relates:

and all our pleasant things are laid waste; their pleasant land, and pleasant cities, and especially Jerusalem, the palaces of their princes and nobles, and all the riches and grandeur of them, the temple, and all the rich vessels and utensils in it.

d T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 4. 1. & Succa, fol. 51. 2. e בית קדשנו ותפארתנו "domus sanctitatis nostae, et gloriae nostrae", Calvin, Junius & Tremellius, Forerius. f De Bello Judaeorum, l. 6. c. 4. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Our holy and our beautiful house - The temple. It was called ‘holy,’ because it was dedicated to the service of God; and ‘beautiful,’ on account of its extraordinary magnificence. The original word more properly means glorious.

Where our fathers praised thee - Few attachments become stronger than that which is formed for a place of worship where our ancestors have long been engaged in the service of God. It was now a great aggravation of their sufferings, that that beautiful place, consecrated by the fact that their forefathers had long there offered praise to God, was lying in ruins.

Is burned up with fire - (See 2 Chronicles 36:19).

And all our pleasant things - All that is precious to us (Hebrew); all the objects of our desire. The reference is to their temples, their homes, their city - to all that was dear to them in their native land. It would be difficult to find a passage anywhere in the Bible - or out of it - that equals this for tenderness and true pathos. They were an exiled people; long suffering in a distant land with the reflection that their homes were in ruins; their splendid temple long since fired and lying in desolation; the rank grass growing in their streets, and their whole country overrun with wild beasts, and with a rank and unsubdued vegetation. To that land they longed to return, and here with the deepest emotion they plead with God in behalf of their desolate country. The sentiment here is, that we should go to God with deep emotion when his church is prostrate, and that then is the time when we should use the most tender pleadings, and when our hearts should be melted within us.


 
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