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Isaiah 63:19

The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 63:19

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

We are thine. There is no "thine" in the original, and so important a word cannot possibly be supplied from without. Translate, We are as those over whom thou hast not ruled from of old, as those upon whom thy Name has not been called; i.e. we have lost all our privileges—we have become in God's sight no better than the heathen—he has forgotten that we were ever his people.

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