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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure? |
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