Isaiah 64:1-11 ▼

1 If only You would tear the heavens open and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence—

2 as 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 When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains quaked at Your presence.

4 From 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 You 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 All 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 No 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 Yet LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; we all are the work of Your hands.

9 LORD, do not be terribly angry or remember our iniquity forever. Please look—all of us are Your people!

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

11 Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.