Isaiah 64
1 If only you would split open the heavens and come down!The mountains would quake at your presence.2 Be like the fire that kindles brushwood and makes water boil.Come down to make your name known to your enemies.The nations will tremble in your presence.3 When you did awe-inspiring things that we didn’t expect,you came down and the mountains quaked in your presence.4 No one has ever heard,no one has paid attention,and no one has seen any god except you.You help those who wait for you.5 You greeted the one who gladly does right and remembers your ways.You showed your anger, because we’ve sinned.We’ve continued to sin for a long time.Can we still be saved?6 We’ve all become unclean,tand all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags.All of us shrivel like leaves,and our sins carry us away like the wind.7 No one calls on your nameor tries to hold on to you.You have hidden your face from us.You have let us be ruined by our sins.8 But now, Lord, you are our Father.We are the clay, and you are our potter.We are the work of your hands.9 Don’t be too angry, Lord.Don’t remember our sin forever.Now look, we are all your people.10 Your holy cities have become a desert.Zion has become a desert.Jerusalem is a wasteland.11 Our holy and beautiful temple, where our ancestors praised you,has been burned to the ground.All that we valued has been ruined.12 Despite these things, Lord, will you hold back?Will you be silent and make us suffer more than we can bear?
Isaiah 64
1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,2 as when fire kindleth the brushwood, and the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.4 For 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.5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them have we been of long time; and shall we be saved?6 For 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.7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.8 But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.9 Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.10 Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?