Isaiah 63:19 We are yours from of old; but you have not ruled over them, they have not been called by your name.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
We are yours from of old; but you have not ruled over them, they have not been called by your name.

English Standard Version
We have become like those over whom you have never ruled, like those who are not called by your name.

New American Standard Bible
We have become like those over whom You have never ruled, Like those who were not called by Your name.

King James Bible
We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We have become like those You never ruled over, like those not called by Your name.

International Standard Version
For a long time we have been those you do not rule, those who are not called by your name.

American Standard Version
We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.

Douay-Rheims Bible
We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, and when we were not called by thy name.

Darby Bible Translation
We have become like those over whom thou never barest rule, those not called by thy name.

Young's Literal Translation
We have been from of old, Thou hast not ruled over them, Not called is Thy name upon them!

Cross References

Acts 15:17
That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, on whom my name is called, said the Lord, who does all these things.

Isaiah 63:18
The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

Isaiah 64:1
Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down at your presence,

Isaiah 65:1
I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

Jeremiah 14:9
Why should you be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet you, O LORD, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name; leave us not.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

63:15-19 They beseech him to look down on the abject condition of their once-favoured nation. Would it not be glorious to his name to remove the veil from their hearts, to return to the tribes of his inheritance? The Babylonish captivity, and the after-deliverance of the Jews, were shadows of the events here foretold. The Lord looks down upon us in tenderness and mercy. Spiritual judgments are more to be dreaded than any other calamities; and we should most carefully avoid those sins which justly provoke the Lord to leave men to themselves and to their deceiver. Our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name; thy people have always looked upon thee as the God to whom they might appeal. The Lord will hear the prayers of those who belong to him, and deliver them from those not called by his name.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

19. thine … never—rather, "We are Thine from of old; Thou barest not rule over them" [Barnes]. Lowth translates, "We for long have been as those over whom Thou hast not ruled, who are not called by Thy name"; "for long" thus stands in contrast to "but a little while" (Isa 63:18). But the analogy of Isa 63:18 makes it likely that the first clause in this verse refers to the Jews, and the second to their foes, as English Version and Barnes translate it. The Jews' foes are aliens who have unjustly intruded into the Lord's heritage.