Isaiah 64

¹Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down , that the mountains might quake at your presence —

²as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil — to make your name known to your adversaries , and that the nations might tremble at your presence !

³When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down , the mountains quaked at your presence .

⁴From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear , no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.

⁵You 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 ?

⁶We have all become like one who is unclean , and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment . We all fade like a leaf , and our iniquities , like the wind , take us away .

⁷There 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 the hand of our iniquities .

⁸But now , O Lord, you are our Father ; we are the clay , and you are our potter ; we are all the work of your hand .

⁹Be not so terribly angry , O Lord, and remember not iniquity forever . Behold , please look , we are all your people .

¹⁰Your holy cities have become a wilderness ; Zion has become a wilderness , Jerusalem a desolation .

¹¹Our holy and beautiful house , where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire , and all our pleasant places have become ruins .

¹²Will you restrain yourself at these things , O Lord? Will you keep silent , and afflict us so terribly ?