Isaiah 64:9

“Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, &c.] They knew not how to deprecate the displeasure of God entirely; having sinned so greatly against him, they were sensible they deserved his wrath; but entreat it might not be hot and very vehement, and carried to the highest pitch, which would be intolerable: neither remember iniquity for ever; to afflict and punish for it, but forgive it, for not to remember sin is to forgive it; and not inflict the deserved punishment of it, but take off and remove the effects of divine displeasure, which as yet continued, and had a long time, as this petition suggests; and therefore suits better with the present long captivity of the Jews than their seventy years’…”

“(Psa 74:1-2). we are . . . thy people-- (Jer 14:9, Jer 14:21).”

“Thy people - Thou hast no people in covenant but us, and wilt thou not leave thyself a people in the world? Isaiah 64:11”

“wroth: Psa 6:1, Psa 38:1, Psa 74:1, Psa 74:2, Psa 79:5-9; Jer 10:24; Hab 3:2 remember: Jer 3:12; Lam 5:20; Mic 7:18-20; Mal 1:4; Pe2 2:17; Rev 20:10 we are: Isa 63:19; Psa 79:13, Psa 119:94 Isaiah 64:10”

“The re-erection of the ruins of the promised land requires the zeal of every one, and this state of ruin must not continue. It calls out the love and faithfulness of Jehovah. "The cities of Thy holiness have become a pasture-ground; Zion has become a pasture-ground, Jerusalem a desert. The house of our holiness and of our adorning, where our fathers praised Thee, is given up to the fire, and everything that was our delight given up to devastation. Wilt Thou restrain Thyself in spite of this, O Jehovah, be silent, and leave us to suffer the utmost?" Jerusalem by itself could not possibly be called "cities" (‛ârē), say with reference to the upper and lower cities (Vitringa). It is merely…”