Isa 64
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Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might
quake at your presence,
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as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make
your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
3
When you did terrible things which we looked not for, you came down, the mountains
quaked at your presence.
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For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye
seen a God besides you, who works for him whom waits for him.
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You meet him whom rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember you in your
ways: behold, you were wroth, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time;
and shall we be saved?
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For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a
polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind,
take us away.
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And there is none that calls" upon your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of
you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
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But now, O YHWH, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all
are the work of your hand.
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Be not wroth very sore, O YHWH, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look,
we beseech you, we are all your people.
10
Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a
desolation.
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Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire;
and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
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Will you refrain yourself for these things, O YHWH? will you hold your peace, and
afflict us very sore?