But now, O Lord, thou art our father,.... Notwithstanding all that we have done against thee, and thou hast done to us, the relation of a father continues; thou art our Father by creation and adoption; as he was in a particular manner to the Jews, to whom belonged the adoption; and therefore this relation is pleaded, that mercy might be shown them; and so the Targum,"and thou, Lord, thy mercies towards us "are" many (or let them be many) as a father towards "his" children.'
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Isaiah 64:8
Isaiah 64:8
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