Isaiah 64:11

“Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.”

"Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste." - Isaiah 64:11
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What does Isaiah 64:11 mean?

In Isaiah 64:11, the King James Version states, "Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste." This verse is part of a larger passage in the Book of Isaiah which expresses the plea and…

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The Beauty of Our Temples: A Call to Renewal

In Isaiah 64:11, the prophet laments the destruction of the holy and beautiful house of the Lord, saying, "Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste." This verse serves as a poignant…

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A Prayer for Restoration and Hope

O Lord, our God, we humbly come before You today, reflecting on the profound words found in Isaiah 64:11: "Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste." These words echo in our hearts…

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Isaiah 64:11 - "Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste."
Isaiah 64:8
Isaiah 64:10 - "Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation."
Isaiah 64:12 - "Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?"
Isaiah 64:1 - "Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,"
Isaiah 64:8 - "But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand."
Isaiah 64:3 - "When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence."
Isaiah 64:2 - "As 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!"
"Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation." - Isaiah 64:10
Isaiah 64:9 - "¶ Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people."
"Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence," - Isaiah 64:1
Isaiah 64:6 - "But 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."
Isaiah 64:4 - "For 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."
Isaiah 64:5 - "Thou 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."
Isaiah 64:7 - "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."
"Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence," - Isaiah 64:1
"When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence." - Isaiah 64:3
"Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?" - Isaiah 64:12
"But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand." - Isaiah 64:8
"¶ Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people." - Isaiah 64:9
Isaiah 11
"As 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!" - Isaiah 64:2
Isaiah 11:1
Isaiah 55:11
Isaiah 11:1-9
"Thou 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." - Isaiah 64:5
"But 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." - Isaiah 64:6
Isaiah 11:1-9
Isaiah 11:1-9