Isaiah 64

1  a Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
b that the mountains might quake at your presence—
 2  ▼
▼ Ch 64:1 in Hebrew
 as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
d to make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
 3  e When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
 4  f From of old no one has heard
or perceived by the ear,
g no eye has seen a God besides you,
who acts for those who wait for him.
 5 You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved? ▼
▼ Or  in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved

 6  i We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
j We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
 7  k There is no one who calls upon your name,
who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have made us melt in ▼
▼ Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum  have delivered us into
 the hand of our iniquities.
 8  m But now, O  Lord, you are our Father;
n we are the clay, and you are our potter;
o we are all the work of your hand.
 9  p Be not so terribly angry, O  Lord,
q and remember not iniquity forever.
Behold, please look, we are all your people.
 10  r Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
 11  s Our holy and beautiful ▼
▼ Or  holy and glorious
 house,
where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
 12  u Will you restrain yourself at these things, O  Lord?
Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?
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