If only you would tear the heavens open

and come down,g

so that mountains would quake at your presenceh—

2 just as fire kindles brushwood,

and fire boils water—

to make your name known to your enemies,

so that nations would tremble at your presence!

3 When you did awesome worksi

that we did not expect,

you came down,j

and the mountains quaked at your presence.

4 From ancient times no one has heard,

no one has listened to,

no eye has seen any God except you

who acts on behalf of the one who waits for him.k

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?F

6 All of us have become like something unclean,

and all our righteous acts are like a pollutedG garment;l

all of us wither like a leaf,m

and our iniquitiesn carry us away like the wind.