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 Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
that the mountains might quake at your presence—
^2 [a] as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
to make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
³ When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
⁴ From of old no one has heard
or perceived by the ear,
no eye has seen a God besides you,
who acts for those who wait for him.
⁵ You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?^[b]
6 We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
⁷ There is no one who calls upon your name,
who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have made us melt in^[c] the hand of our iniquities.

⁸ But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.
⁹ Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,
and remember not 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 Our holy and beautiful^[d] house,
where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
¹² Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord?
Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?

Footnotes:

1. Isaiah 64:2 Ch 64:1 in Hebrew
2. Isaiah 64:5 Or in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved
3. Isaiah 64:7 Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum have delivered us into
4. Isaiah 64:11 Or holy and glorious

Cross references:

1. Isaiah 64:1 : [2 Sam. 22:10; Ps. 18:9; 144:5]
2. Isaiah 64:1 : Judg. 5:5; Mic. 1:4
3. Isaiah 64:2 : [Josh. 2:9, 10]
4. Isaiah 64:3 : [Ex. 14:13; 15:11]
5. Isaiah 64:4 : [Ps. 31:19]
6. Isaiah 64:4 : [1 Cor. 2:9]
7. Isaiah 64:6 : See ch. 59:12-15
8. Isaiah 64:6 : Ps. 90:5, 6
9. Isaiah 64:7 : ch. 43:22; Hos. 7:7
10. Isaiah 64:8 : ch. 63:16
11. Isaiah 64:8 : ch. 45:9; Rom. 9:20, 21
12. Isaiah 64:8 : ch. 29:23; 45:11
13. Isaiah 64:9 : [ch. 57:16; Ps. 74:1, 2]
14. Isaiah 64:9 : Ps. 79:8
15. Isaiah 64:10 : Neh. 1:3; 2:3
16. Isaiah 64:11 : Hag. 1:9; 2:3; [2 Kgs. 25:9; 2 Chr. 36:19; Ps. 74:7]
17. Isaiah 64:12 : ch. 42:14; [Zech. 1:12]