| Isa. 64:1 |
Oh that You would rend the heavens, that You would come down-- / That the mountains would shake at Your presence-- |
| Isa. 64:2 |
Like fire that kindles brushwood, / [Like] fire that causes water to boil, / To make Your name known to Your adversaries, / [That] the nations may tremble at Your presence! |
| Isa. 64:3 |
When You did awesome things that we did not expect, / You came down, the mountains shook at Your presence. |
| Isa. 64:4 |
For from of old, [men] have not heard, / Nor perceived with the ear, / Neither has eye seen a God besides You, / Who acts for him who waits for Him. |
| Isa. 64:5 |
You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, / Those who remember You in Your ways. / Yes, You were angry, for we sinned; / [We have been] in them for a long time, and shall we be saved? |
| Isa. 64:6 |
For all of us became like him who is unclean, / And all our righteousnesses are like a soiled garment; / And we all wither like a leaf, / And our iniquities, like the wind, carry us away. |
| Isa. 64:7 |
And there is no one who calls upon Your name, / Who stirs himself up to lay hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us / And have consumed us by our iniquities. |
| Isa. 64:8 |
But now, Jehovah, You are our Father; / We are the clay; and You, our Potter; / And all of us are the work of Your hand. |
| Isa. 64:9 |
Do not be angry to an extreme, O Jehovah, / Neither remember iniquity forever; / Look now, we pray: We all are Your people. |
| Isa. 64:10 |
Your holy cities have become a wilderness; / Zion is a wilderness, / Jerusalem a desolation. |
| Isa. 64:11 |
Our holy and beautiful house, / Where our fathers praised You, / Is burned with fire; / And all the things that we delighted in have become a ruin. |
| Isa. 64:12 |
Will You restrain Yourself from these, O Jehovah? / Will You keep silent and afflict us to an extreme? |