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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1If only You would tear the heavens open 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 fire causes water to boil-- to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that 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 quaked at Your presence. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4From ancient times no one has heard, no one has listened, no eye has seen any God except You, who acts on behalf of the one who waits for Him. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5You welcome the one who joyfully does what is right; they remember You in Your ways. But we have sinned, and You were angry. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins? |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment; all of us 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, striving to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and made us melt because of our iniquity. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Yet LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; we all are the work of Your hands. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9 LORD, do not be terribly angry or remember our iniquity forever. Please look--all of us are Your people! |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, 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] | 12 LORD, after all this, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict severely?" |
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