2And they melted as wax is melted from before fire, and fire will burn your enemies and your name will be made known to your enemies and the nations shall be troubled before you

3When you did wonders that we did not expect, you came down and the mountains quaked before you

4From eternity they did not pay attention and they did not hear, and an eye has not seen, oh God, beside you, what you do for those who wait for you

5And you meet in sweetness with those who are doing righteousness, and they shall remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry and we sinned against them. In eternity we shall be redeemed

6For we all are as a defiled thing and all our righteousness is like the patch of cloth of a menstruous woman. We all fall like leaves, and our sins have carried us off like a hurricane

7And there is none who calls on your name and who remembers to hold fast to you, because you turned your face from us and you have handed us over into the hand of our sins

8Now, LORD JEHOVAH, you are our Father, we are clay, and you are our potter and we are, all of us, the work of your hands

9Do not be very angry forever, LORD JEHOVAH, and do not remember our sins forever. See that we are all your people

10The cities of your holiness have become a wilderness, and Zion has become a wilderness and Jerusalem a ruin

11The house of our holiness and our glory where our fathers praised you was for the burning of fire and all our desire has become a wilderness

12For these you restrained yourself, LORD JEHOVAH, and you have been silent, and you have laid us very low