Isaiah 64:1-11 ▼

1 If only You would rend the heavens and come down; at Your presence the mountains would shake,

2 like the kindling of brushwood by the fire—the fire boils the waters—to make known Your name to Your adversaries, that before Your face the nations will tremble,

3 at Your doing fearsome things we could not have expected! You come down, before Your face the mountains shake.

4 And from age past they have not heard, and they have not given ear; no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts for the one waiting for Him.

5 You meet the one rejoicing and doing righteousness; in Your ways they remember You. Behold, You were angry, and we had sinned; in them is continuance, then will we be saved?

6 And all of us have become like an unclean one, all our righteous acts are as a filthy rag; and all of us wither like the leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

7 And no one is calling on Your name, stirring himself up to take hold of You; for You have hidden Your face from us, and delivered us into the hand of our iniquities.

8 And now, O YHWH You are our Father; we are the clay, and You the One forming us, and we are all the work of Your hand.

9 Do not be angry, O YHWH, beyond measure, and do not remember our iniquity forever! Behold, please, look; we are all Your people!

10 Your holy Cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

11 And our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire; and all our desirable things are laid waste.