19 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
19 We have become like those over whom you have never ruled, like those who are not called by your name.
19 For a long time now, you've paid no attention to us. It's like you never knew us.
19 We have become like those of old, over whom You never ruled, Those who were never called by Your name.
19 Sometimes it seems as though we never belonged to you, as though we had never been known as your people.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 63:19
Commentary on Isaiah 63:15-19
(Read Isaiah 63:15-19)
They beseech him to look down on the abject condition of their once-favoured nation. Would it not be glorious to his name to remove the veil from their hearts, to return to the tribes of his inheritance? The Babylonish captivity, and the after-deliverance of the Jews, were shadows of the events here foretold. The Lord looks down upon us in tenderness and mercy. Spiritual judgments are more to be dreaded than any other calamities; and we should most carefully avoid those sins which justly provoke the Lord to leave men to themselves and to their deceiver. "Our Redeemer from everlasting" is thy name; thy people have always looked upon thee as the God to whom they might appeal. The Lord will hear the prayers of those who belong to him, and deliver them from those not called by his name.