Isaiah 64

¹I wish that you would rend the heavens, and then descend! The mountains would flow away before your face.

²They would melt, as if thoroughly burned by fire. The waters would burn with fire, so that your name might be made known to your enemies, so that the nations would be stirred up before your face.

³When you will perform miracles, we will not be able to withstand them. You descended, and the mountains flowed away before your presence.

⁴From ages past, they have not heard it, and they have not perceived it with the ears. Apart from you, O God, the eye has not seen what you have prepared for those who await you.

⁵You have met with those who rejoice in doing justice. By your ways, they will remember you. Behold, you have been angry, for we have sinned. In this, we have continued, but we will be saved.

⁶And we have all become like the unclean. And all our justices are like a rag of menstruation. And we have all fallen away, like a leaf. And our iniquities have carried us away, like the wind.

⁷There is no one who calls upon your name, who rises up and holds fast to you. You have concealed your face from us, and you have crushed us with the hand of our own iniquity.

⁸And now, O Lord, you are our Father, yet truly, we are clay. And you are our Maker, and we are all the works of your hands.

⁹Do not be so angry, O Lord, and no longer call to mind our iniquity. Behold, consider that we are all your people.

¹⁰The city of your sanctuary has become a desert. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is desolate.

¹¹The house of our sanctification and of our glory, where our fathers praised you, has been completely consumed by fire, and all our admirable things have been turned into ruins.

¹²Should you restrain yourself, O Lord, concerning these things? Should you remain silent, and afflict us vehemently?

Isaiah 64

¹O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.

²They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the nations might tremble at thy presence.

³When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.

⁴From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.

⁵Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved.

⁶And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

⁷There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.

⁸And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

⁹Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people.

¹⁰The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a desert, Jerusalem is desolate.

¹¹The house of our holiness, and of our glory, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely things are turned into ruins.

¹²Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon these things, wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us vehemently?