Yesaya 63:19

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Bahwa kami sudah menjadi seolah-olah tiada pernah Engkau memerintahkan kami dan seperti tiada pernah atas kami disebut nama-Mu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Keadaan kami seolah-olah kami dari dahulu kala tidak pernah berada di bawah pemerintahan-Mu, seolah-olah nama-Mu tidak pernah disebut atas kami.

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Keadaan kami seolah-olah kami dari dahulu kala tidak pernah berada di bawah pemerintahan-Mu, seolah-olah nama-Mu tidak pernah disebut atas kami.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

are thine: Psalms 79:6, Psalms 135:4, Jeremiah 10:25, Acts 14:16, Romans 9:4, Ephesians 2:12

they were not called by thy name: or, thy name was not called upon them, Isaiah 65:1, Amos 9:12, Acts 15:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:26 - Enos Exodus 33:13 - consider Deuteronomy 9:26 - which thou hast redeemed Deuteronomy 9:29 - Yet they Deuteronomy 28:10 - called Judges 8:23 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 7:14 - my people Psalms 100:3 - we are his Isaiah 43:7 - called Isaiah 64:9 - we are Jeremiah 14:9 - we are called by thy name Amos 3:2 - only 2 Timothy 2:19 - Let

Gill's Notes on the Bible

We are thine,.... Thy children, thy people, thy subjects. Some read it, taking a word from the next clause, "we are thine of old", or "from everlasting" h; as the Lord's special people are, being chosen by him in Christ before the foundation of the world, and taken into an everlasting covenant by him, when he became their God, and they his people; agreeably to which is the Targum,

"we are thy people that were of old;''

so Kimchi reads the words: "thou never barest rule over them"; the Heathens that oppressed them; they never acknowledged God as their King as they did, or were subject to him as they were; and therefore had no claim to protection from him as they had:

they were not called by thy name; they were not called the people of God, nor the children of God, nor the servants or subjects of God; or, "thy name is not called upon them" i; or they called after it; nor did they call upon it, but served other gods. The Targum is,

"thou hast not given unto the people the doctrine of thy law, neither is thy name called upon by them.''

h היינו מעולם "non fuimus [tui] ab omni aevo", Grotius; "a seculo", Pagninus, Montanus. i לא נקרא שמך עליהם "nec invocatum est nomen tuum super eos", Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

We are thine - We urge it as a reason for thy interposition to restore the land and the temple, that we are thine from ancient times. Such I take to be the meaning of the passage - in accordance with the common translation, except that the expression מעולם mē‛ôlâm, ‘from ancient times,’ rendered by our translators in connection with לא lo', ‘never,’ is thus connected with the Jewish people, instead of being regarded as applied to their enemies. The idea is, that it is an argument why God should interpose in their behalf, that they had been for a long time his people, but that his foes, who then had possession of the land, had never submitted to his laws. There has been, however, great variety in interpreting the passage. Lowth renders it:

We have long been as those whom thou hast not ruled;

We have not been called by thy name.

Noyes renders it better:

It has been with us as if thou hadst never ruled over us,

As if we had not been called by thy name.

Symmachus and the Arabic Saadias render it in the same manner. The Septuagint renders it, ‘We have been as at the beginning when thou didst not rule over us, neither were we called by thy name;’ that is, we have gone back practically to our former pagan condition, by rejecting thy laws, and by breaking thy covenant. Each of these interpretations makes a consistent sense, but it seems to me that the one which I have expressed above is more in accordance with the Hebrew.

Thou never barest rule over them - Over our enemies - regarded in the prophetic vision as then in possession of the land. The idea is, that they have come into thy land by violence, and laid waste a nation where they had no right to claim any jurisdiction, and have now no claim to thy protection.

They were not called by thy name - Hebrew, ‘Thy name was not called upon them.’ They were aliens and strangers who had unjustly intruded into the heritage of the Lord.