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Isaiah 64:7
No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet speaks for the corporate community of Israel during a moment of national lament, immediately after describing their collective spiritual decay in Isaiah 64:6.
The words — מִתְעוֹרֵר (mit.'o.Rer) means [one who] rouses himself, paired with הִסְתַּרְתָּ (his.Tar.ta) meaning you have hidden, to chart the shift from human spiritual apathy to divine withdrawal.
The thread — The motif of absent human mediation runs through Ezekiel 22:30, where God searches for someone to stand in the gap, and Isaiah 50:2 and 59:16, where God notes no one answered His call or interceded.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that spiritual decline precedes divine hiddenness, requiring the reader to examine personal and corporate apathy before appealing for restoration.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 22:30 I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.
- Isaiah 50:2 Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
- Isaiah 59:16 He saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.
- Hosea 7:14 They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
- Isaiah 27:5 Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me—yes, let them make peace with Me.”
- Isaiah 54:8 In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
- Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
- Hosea 7:7 All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.
- Deuteronomy 31:17 On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
- Deuteronomy 32:19 When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.