Isaiah 64:9

The people beg God not to remain angry or remember sin forever, pleading that they are all His people. It matters because it appeals to God's mercy and covenant ownership.

Cross-references · 18

• Mic 7:18–20Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
• Ps 79:13So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
• Ps 74:1–2A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
• Ps 79:5–9How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
• Isa 57:17I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
• Mal 1:4Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places”; Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”
• Isa 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
• Jer 10:24Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
• 2 Pet 2:17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
• Isa 63:19We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.
• Hab 3:2Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
• Rev 20:10The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
• Lam 5:20Why do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time?
• Ps 119:94I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
• Ps 38:1A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
• Jer 3:12Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
• Isa 60:10“Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
• Ps 6:1For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

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