Isaiah 64:5
You welcome those who gladly do right,
What it says
God meets those who gladly do right, but His people have continued in sin under His anger.
What it is doing
This verse begins the turn from remembered power to confessed guilt.
In context
1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, 2as fire kindles the brushwood 3When You did awesome works that we did not expect, 4From ancient times no one has heard, 5You welcome those who gladly do right, 6Each of us has become like something unclean, 7No one calls on Your name 8But now, O LORD, You are our Father; 9Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; 10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. 11Our holy and beautiful temple, 12After all this, O LORD,