| New King James Version | International Standard Version |
| 1Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence— | 1 If only you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence— |
| 2As fire burns brushwood, As fire causes water to boil— To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the nations may tremble at Your presence! | 2 just as fire sets twigs ablaze and the fire causes water to boil— to make known your name to your enemies, yes, to your enemies before you, so that the nations might quake at your presence! |
| 3When You did awesome things for which we did not look, You came down, The mountains shook at Your presence. | 3When you did awesome deeds that we expected, you came down, and the mountains shuddered before you. |
| 4For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him. | 4Since ancient times no one has heard, and no ear has perceived, and no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him. |
| 5You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways. You are indeed angry, for we have sinned— In these ways we continue; And we need to be saved. | 5You come to the aid of those who gladly do what's right, To those who remember you in your ways. See, you were angry, and we sinned against them for a long time, but we will be saved. |
| 6But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away. | 6All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a filthy rag; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind, our iniquities sweep us away. |
| 7And there is no one who calls on Your name, Who stirs himself up to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us, And have consumed us because of our iniquities. | 7There is no one who calls on your name or rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have given us into the control of our iniquity. |
| 8But now, O LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand. | 8But as for you, O LORD, you are our Father; and we are clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands. |
| 9Do not be furious, O LORD, Nor remember iniquity forever; Indeed, please look—we all are Your people! | 9Don't be angry beyond measure, LORD, and don't remember our iniquity for a season. Please look now, we are all your people. |
| 10Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. | 10Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation. |
| 11Our holy and beautiful temple, Where our fathers praised You, Is burned up with fire; And all our pleasant things are laid waste. | 11Our holy Temple and our splendor, where our ancestors praised you, have become a conflagration of fire, and all our dearest places have become ruins. |
| 12Will You restrain Yourself because of these things, O LORD? Will You hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely? | 12 LORD, after all this, can you hold yourself back? Can you keep silent and punish us so severely? |
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