John Gill Commentary Isaiah 63:19

"We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name." — Isaiah 63:19 (ASV)

We are yours
Your children, your people, your subjects. Some read it, taking a word from the next clause, "we are yours of old", or "from everlasting" ^F8; as the Lord's special people are, being chosen by him in Christ before the foundation of the world, and taken into an everlasting covenant by him, when he became their God, and they his people; agreeably to which is the Targum, ``we are your people that were of old;'' so Kimchi reads the words:

"You never bore rule over them"; the Heathens that oppressed them; they never acknowledged God as their King as they did, or were subject to him as they were; and therefore had no claim to protection from him as they had:

they were not called by your name;
they were not called the people of God, nor the children of God, nor the servants or subjects of God; or, "your name is not called upon them" ^F9; or they called after it; nor did they call upon it, but served other gods. The Targum is, ``you have not given unto the people the doctrine of your law, neither is your name called upon by them.''

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FOOTNOTES:

• F8: (Mlwem wnyyh) "non fuimus [tui] ab omni aevo", Grotius; "a seculo", Pagninus, Montanus.
• F9: (Mhyle Kmv arqn al) "nec invocatum est nomen tuum super eos", Pagninus, Montanus.