Yesaya 64:8

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Maka sekarangpun, ya Tuhan! Engkau juga Bapa kami; bahwa kami ini tanah liat dan Engkaulah penjunan kami; maka kami sekalianpun perbuatan tangan-Mu.

Parallel Translations

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Tetapi sekarang, ya TUHAN, Engkaulah Bapa kami! Kamilah tanah liat dan Engkaulah yang membentuk kami, dan kami sekalian adalah buatan tangan-Mu.

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Tetapi sekarang, ya TUHAN, Engkaulah Bapa kami! Kamilah tanah liat dan Engkaulah yang membentuk kami, dan kami sekalian adalah buatan tangan-Mu.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou art: Isaiah 63:16, Exodus 4:22, Deuteronomy 32:6, Galatians 3:26, Galatians 3:29

are the clay: Isaiah 29:16, Isaiah 45:9, Jeremiah 18:2-6, Romans 9:20-24

all are: Isaiah 43:7, Isaiah 44:21, Isaiah 44:24, Job 10:8, Job 10:9, Psalms 100:3, Psalms 119:73, Psalms 138:8, Ephesians 2:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:26 - Let us Genesis 2:7 - formed man Genesis 18:27 - dust Job 10:3 - the work Psalms 33:15 - fashioneth Psalms 119:94 - I am thine Jeremiah 3:19 - Thou shalt Jeremiah 18:6 - General Jeremiah 31:9 - for I Jeremiah 32:27 - God Lamentations 2:20 - consider Malachi 1:6 - if then Malachi 2:10 - all Matthew 6:9 - Our Luke 3:38 - of God John 8:41 - we have Romans 9:21 - the potter Hebrews 1:10 - the works

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But now, O Lord, thou art our father,.... Notwithstanding all that we have done against thee, and thou hast done to us, the relation of a father continues; thou art our Father by creation and adoption; as he was in a particular manner to the Jews, to whom belonged the adoption; and therefore this relation is pleaded, that mercy might be shown them; and so the Targum,

"and thou, Lord, thy mercies towards us "are" many (or let them be many) as a father towards "his" children.''

We are the clay, and thou our potter: respecting their original formation out of the dust of the earth; and so expressing humility in themselves, and yet ascribing greatness to God, who had curiously formed them, as the potter out of the clay forms vessels for various uses: it may respect their formation as a body politic and ecclesiastic, which arose from small beginnings, under the power and providence of God; see Deuteronomy 32:6:

and we all are the work of thy hand; and therefore regard us, and destroy us not; as men do not usually destroy their own works: these relations to God, and circumstances in which they were as creatures, and as a body civil and ecclesiastic, are used as arguments for mercy and favour.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But now, O Lord, thou art our Father - (See the notes at Isaiah 63:16).

We are the clay - The idea seems to be, that their condition then had been produced by him as clay is moulded by the potter, and that they were to be returned and restored entirely by him - as they had no more power to do it than the clay had to shape itself. The sense is, that they were wholly in his hand and at his disposal (see the notes at Isaiah 29:16; Isaiah 45:9).

And thou our potter - Thou hast power to mould us as the potter does the clay.

And we all are the work of thy hand - That is, as the vessel made by the potter is his work. We have been formed by thee, and we are dependent on thee to make us what thou wilt have us to be. This whole verse is an acknowledgment of the sovereignty of God. It expresses the feeling which all have when under conviction of sin; and when they are sensible that they are exposed to the divine displeasure for their transgressions. Then they feel that if they are to be saved, it must be by the mere sovereignty of God; and then they implore his interposition to ‘mould and guide them at his will.’

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 64:8. But, now, O Lord, thou art our Father - "But thou, O JEHOVAH, thou art our Father"] For ועתה veattah, and now, five MSS., one of them ancient, and the two oldest editions, 1486 and 1488, have ואתה veattah, and thou; and so the Chaldee seems to have read. The repetition has great force. The other word may be well spared. "But now, O Lord, thou art our Father." How very affectionate is the complaint in this and the following verses! But how does the distress increase, when they recollect the desolations of the temple, and ruin of public worship, Isaiah 64:11: "Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up with fire," &c.

We all are the work of thy hand — Three MSS. (two of them ancient) and the Septuagint read מעשה maaseh, the work, without the conjunction ו vau prefixed. And for ידך yadecha, thy hand, the Bodleian, and two others MSS., the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read ידיך yadeycha, thy hands, in the plural number. - L.