King James Version
Isaiah 64:8 in the King James Version says “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.” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 64 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Isaiah 64:8 · KJV
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.
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. consumed: Heb. melted because: Heb. by the hand
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.
Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“But now O LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“thou art our father”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
“we are the clay”
H2563properly, a bubbling up, i.e., of water, a wave; hence, a chomer or dry measure
“and thou our potter”
H3335to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively, to determine (i.e., form a resolution)
“and we all are the work”
H4639an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
“of thy hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
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