| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down, That the mountains might quake at Your presence-- |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2As fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil-- To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the nations may tremble at Your presence! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3When You did awesome things which we did not expect, You came down, the mountains quaked at Your presence. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For from days of old they have not heard or perceived by ear, Nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we sinned, We continued in them a long time; And shall we be saved? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7There is no one who calls on Your name, Who arouses himself to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us And have delivered us into the power of our iniquities. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But now, O LORD, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD, Nor remember iniquity forever; Behold, look now, 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 house, Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And all our precious things have become a ruin. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Will You restrain Yourself at these things, O LORD? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure? |
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