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Isaiah 64

¹Oh that you wouldest rend the heavens, that you wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence, ²as when fire kindleth the brushwood, [and] the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make your name known to yours adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! ³When you didst terrible things which we looked not for, you camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence. ⁴For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God besides thee, who worketh for him that waiteth for him. ⁵Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in your ways: behold, you wast wroth, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be saved? ⁶For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. ⁷And there is none that calleth upon your name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for you hast hid your face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities. ⁸But now, O Jehovah, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. ⁹Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all your people. ¹⁰Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. ¹¹Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste. ¹²Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? wilt you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?

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