Isaiah 33:2 (BSB)

O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble.

From Isaiah 33. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Isaiah 33:2

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Isaiah 33:2: 2. O Jehovah, have pity upon us. This sentiment was added by the Prophet, in order to remind the godly where they ought to go amidst such distresses, even when they shall appear to be deprived of all hope of safety; that they ought to betake themselves to prayer, to supplicate from God the fulfillment of these promises, even when they shall be most wretched...
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Isaiah 33:1-12: Here we have, I. The proud and false Assyrian justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence, and laid under a woe, Isa 33:1. Observe, 1. The sin which the enemy had been guilty of. He had spoiled the people of God, and made a prey of them, and herein had broken his treaty of peace with them, and dealt treacherously.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Isaiah 33:2: O Lord, be gracious unto us,.... This is a prayer of the church under the persecutions of antichrist, imploring the grace and favour of God in their miserable and distressed circumstances; desiring his gracious help, assistance, and deliverance; pleading not any merits of their own, but casting themselves upon the mercy and kindness of God: we have waited for thee; time after time, year after...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Isaiah 33:2: us; we . . . their . . . our--He speaks interceding for His people, separating himself in thought for a moment from them, and immediately returns to his natural identification with them in the word "our." every morning--each day as it dawns, especially during our danger, as the parallel "time of trouble" shows.