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Repentant worshippers gather among Jerusalem’s burned ruins around an unfinished clay vessel as storm clouds tear open above trembling mountains.
KING JAMES VERSION

ISAIAH 64

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Isaiah 64 — The people plead for the heavens to be rent, confess their sin and fading righteousness, and appeal to their Father and Potter amid desolation.

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The potter is implied through the shaped clay without showing divine hands. Fire, ruined sanctuary, windblown leaves, and opened heavens remain symbolic and non-graphic.

Scripture basis: Isaiah 64:1–12
  1. 1Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
  2. 2As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
  3. 3When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
  4. 4For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
  5. 5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
  6. 6But 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. 7And 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. 8But 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. 9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
  10. 10Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
  11. 11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
  12. 12Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom

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