Isaiah 63:17–64:1

¹⁷O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. ¹⁸Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. ¹⁹We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.

64Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,