Yesaya 63:15

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Lihat apalah dari dalam sorga dan pandang apalah dari dalam tempat kedudukan-Mu yang suci dan mulia; di mana gerangan kasih-Mu yang cemburuan dan segala kuasa-Mu? Adakah segala rahmat-Mu dan kasihan-Mu ditegahkan dari padaku?

Parallel Translations

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Pandanglah dari sorga dan lihatlah dari kediaman-Mu yang kudus dan agung! Di manakah kecemburuan-Mu dan keperkasaan-Mu, hati-Mu yang tergerak dan kasih sayang-Mu? Janganlah kiranya Engkau menahan diri!

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Pandanglah dari sorga dan lihatlah dari kediaman-Mu yang kudus dan agung! Di manakah kecemburuan-Mu dan keperkasaan-Mu, hati-Mu yang tergerak dan kasih sayang-Mu? Janganlah kiranya Engkau menahan diri!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

down: Deuteronomy 26:15, Psalms 33:14, Psalms 80:14, Psalms 102:19, Psalms 102:20, Lamentations 3:50

the habitation: Isaiah 57:15, Isaiah 66:1, 1 Kings 8:27, 2 Chronicles 30:27, Psalms 113:5, Psalms 113:6, Psalms 123:1

where: Isaiah 51:9, Isaiah 51:10, Psalms 89:49

sounding: or, multitude

thy bowels: Isaiah 63:9, Isaiah 49:15, Psalms 25:6, *marg. Jeremiah 31:20, Hosea 11:8, Luke 1:78, *marg. Philippians 2:1, 1 John 3:17

Are: Psalms 77:7-9

Reciprocal: Judges 6:13 - why then 1 Kings 8:33 - pray 2 Kings 19:31 - the zeal 1 Chronicles 21:13 - great Nehemiah 9:28 - heardest Psalms 14:2 - The Lord Psalms 20:6 - his holy heaven Psalms 51:1 - multitude Psalms 77:9 - God Psalms 103:13 - Like Isaiah 16:11 - my Isaiah 59:17 - with zeal Isaiah 63:11 - Where is he that brought Isaiah 64:1 - that thou wouldest come Jeremiah 48:36 - mine heart Daniel 9:18 - incline Joel 2:18 - and pity Micah 7:19 - turn Habakkuk 3:2 - O Lord Zechariah 1:14 - I am Zechariah 2:13 - his holy habitation Zechariah 8:2 - I was jealous Zechariah 9:17 - how great is his goodness Mark 4:38 - carest Acts 4:29 - behold Philippians 1:8 - in Colossians 3:12 - bowels

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Look down from heaven,.... Here begins the prayer of the church and people of God, which continues to the end of the chapter, goes through the next, and the answer to which begins at Isaiah 65:1. Aben Ezra calls it the prayer of the wise in captivity: it seems to be the petition of some converts among the Jews, either in the first times of the Gospel, or in the latter day; who entreat that the Lord would "look down from heaven", the third heaven, the seat of his majesty, where is his throne of glory, and his presence is most visible to angels and glorified saints; this is on high, as the phrase imports; and the persons below, on earth, at his footstool, whom he is desired to look down upon, and which to do is a great condescension in him,

Psalms 113:6, and this is to be understood, not of that general view of persons and things, which he is always taking, Psalms 33:13, but of a special look of love, grace, and mercy; such an one with which he looks upon his people in Christ, with complacency and delight: indeed his eyes are always on them, and never withdrawn from them; he ever looks upon them, to preserve and protect them, to communicate unto them, to support them under their afflictions, and to deliver out of them; but because of this they are not always sensible, but are ready to conclude that he looks off from them, and turns his back upon them, therefore they desire him to return, look down, and behold; see Psalms 80:14:

and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory; this is a description of heaven, as the dwelling place of God, who is most holy, holiness itself, in whom that perfection is most glorious, and which is displayed in all his works; and hence heaven is a holy as well as a high place, and where none but holy persons dwell; and which is a glorious place, where the glory of God is displayed, the glory of Christ is seen, and which is glory itself; and from hence the holy God is desired to behold; what creatures, dust, and ashes, sinful ones, polluted worms, at his footstool, a poor and an afflicted people:

where is thy zeal, and thy strength? his "jealousy" of his great name, and of his own glory; his jealousy of his dear people, that they are not wronged and injured; his "fervent love", and warm affections for them, of which he has given pregnant proofs; which, shed abroad in the heart, warms that, and is what many waters cannot quench: this indeed is not always alike manifest, and therefore unbelief asks where it is, as if it was quite gone; or, however, faith prays for a fresh manifestation of it. The "strength" or power of God has appeared in creation, and in the sustentation of all things; in Christ, the man of his right hand; in strengthening his people, destroying their enemies, and delivering them; and yet this not appearing sometimes at once, immediately for their help and protection, they ask where it is: it follows:

the sounding of thy bowels, and of thy mercies towards me? the noise and rumbling of the bowels, to which the allusion is, are sometimes occasioned by the working of strong passions, as fear and love, and which produce what is called the yearning of the bowels; of which there are instances in Joseph, and in the harlot in Solomon's time, Genesis 43:30, the tender mercies of God, his pity and compassion, are expressed hereby, to which are owing the mission of his Son, the forgiveness of sins, and help and relief under afflictions; see Luke 1:77, now it is asked, where are those?

are they restrained? it was thought they were shut up in anger, and would not be let out again; see Psalms 77:7. The phrase "towards me", in the former clause, seems, according to the accents, to belong to this; and should be read, "are they restrained towards me" d? or "shut up from me?" the Lord seemed to harden his heart against his church and people, and to have no heart of compassion towards them, as they imagined.

d אלי התאפקו "erga me continerent se", Montanus; "continerent?" Junius Tremellius "erga me sese continent?" Piscator; "cohibeant se erga me?" Gataker; so Ben Melech; "quae se erga me continent?" Vitringa.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Look down from heaven - This commences an earnest appeal that God would have mercy on them in their present calamities and trials. They entreat him to remember his former mercies, and to return and bless them, as he had done in ancient times.

And behold from the habitation - (See the notes at Isaiah 57:15).

Where is thy zeal - That is, thy former zeal for thy people; where is now the proof of the interest for their welfare which was vouchsafed in times that are past.

And thy strength - The might which was formerly manifested for their deliverance and salvation.

The sounding of thy bowels - Margin, ‘Multitude.’ The word rendered ‘sounding’ (המון hâmôn), means properly a noise or sound, as of rain; 1 Kings 18:41; of singing, Ezekiel 26:13; of a multitude, 1 Samuel 4:14; 1 Samuel 14:19. It also means a multitude, or a crowd of people Isaiah 13:4; Isaiah 33:3. Here it relates to an emotion or affection of the mind; and the phrase denotes compassion, or tender concern for them in their sufferings. It is derived from the customary expression in the Bible that the bowels, that is, the organs in the region of the chest - for so the word is used in the Scriptures - were the seat of the emotions, and were supposed to be affected by any strong and tender emotion of the mind (see the notes at Isaiah 16:11). The idea here is, ‘Where is thy former compassion for thy people in distress?’

Are they restrained? - Are they witcheld? Are thy mercies to be exercised no more?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 63:15. And thy strength - "And thy mighty power" ] For גבורתיך geburotheycha, plural, thirty-two MSS. (seven ancient) and twenty-one of De Rossi's, and seven editions, have גבורתך geburathecha, singular.

Are they restrained? — For אלי elai, from (or in regard to) me, the Septuagint and Syriac read אלינו eleynu, from us. - L.