Verse Lens · Context pointer
Isaiah 64:8 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 8. 8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
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Role in This Section
The prayer or lamenting voice turns or qualifies the movement with “But now, O LORD, thou art our father” at Isaiah 64:8 inside “Confession Appeals to the Potter amid Burned Holy Places.”
Read It With
- Isaiah 64:5–12
Keep Isaiah 64:8 with the thought unit titled “Confession Appeals to the Potter amid Burned Holy Places.” The prayer or lamenting voice turns or qualifies the movement with “But now, O LORD, thou art our father” at Isaiah 64:8 inside “Confession Appeals to the Potter amid Burned Holy Places.” The relevant historical horizon and literary form govern its use.
Why It Needs Context
The verse is a premise, action, image, response, or transition within Isaiah 64:5–12, not an independent maxim. The prayer or lamenting voice turns or qualifies the movement with “But now, O LORD, thou art our father” at Isaiah 64:8 inside “Confession Appeals to the Potter amid Burned Holy Places.”
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Isaiah 64:5–12 — Confession Appeals to the Potter amid Burned Holy PlacesSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Isaiah 64:5–12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 64:5–12 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked
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