Isa 64:5 | JFB | STEP | 5. meetest-- that is, Thou makest peace, or enterest into covenant with him (see on ). rejoiceth and worketh-- that is, who with joyful willingness worketh [Gesenius] ( ; ). those-- Thou meetest "those," in apposition to "him" who represents a class whose characteristics "those that," &c., more fully describes. remember thee in thy ways-- ( ). sinned-- literally, "tripped," carrying on the figure in "ways." in those is continuance-- a plea to deprecate the continuance of God's wrath; it is not in Thy wrath that there is continuance ( , ; ; ), but in Thy ways ("those"), namely, of covenant mercy to Thy people ( ; Mal 3:6); on the strength of the everlasting continuance of His covenant they infer by faith, "we shall be saved." God "remembered" for them His covenant ( ), though they often "remembered not" Him ( ). Castellio translates, "we have sinned for long in them ('thy ways'), and could we then be saved?" But they hardly would use such a plea when their very object was to be saved.

‏ Isaiah 64:5

5. meetest--that is, Thou makest peace, or enterest into covenant with him (see on Is 47:3).

rejoiceth and worketh--that is, who with joyful willingness worketh [Gesenius] (Ac 10:35; Joh 7:17).

those--Thou meetest "those," in apposition to "him" who represents a class whose characteristics "those that," &c., more fully describes.

remember thee in thy ways--(Is 26:8).

sinned--literally, "tripped," carrying on the figure in "ways."

in those is continuance--a plea to deprecate the continuance of God's wrath; it is not in Thy wrath that there is continuance (Is 54:7, 8; Psa 30:5; 103:9), but in Thy ways ("those"), namely, of covenant mercy to Thy people (Mi 7:18-20; Mal 3:6); on the strength of the everlasting continuance of His covenant they infer by faith, "we shall be saved." God "remembered" for them His covenant (Psa 106:45), though they often "remembered not" Him (Psa 78:42). Castellio translates, "we have sinned for long in them ('thy ways'), and could we then be saved?" But they hardly would use such a plea when their very object was to be saved.