Matthew Henry Commentary Isaiah 63:15-19

"Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me. For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name. O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants` sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. Thy holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name." — Isaiah 63:15-19 (ASV)

They implore him to look down on the miserable condition of their once-favored 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 Babylonian captivity, and the subsequent deliverance of the Jews, were shadows of the events prophesied here. The Lord looks down upon us in tenderness and mercy.

Spiritual judgments are more to be feared than any other disasters; and we should most carefully avoid those sins which rightly provoke the Lord to leave people to themselves and to their deceiver.

Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name; your people have always looked upon you 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.