Isaiah 63:7–64:12
7 I will pmention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord,
qAccording to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us,
And rthe great goodness toward the house of Israel,
Which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies,
And saccording to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people,
Children that will not lie:
So he was their Saviour.
9 tIn all their affliction he was afflicted,
And uthe angel of his presence saved them:
vIn his love and in his pity whe redeemed them;
And he bare them, and xcarried them all the days of old.
10 But ythey rebelled, and zvexed his holy Spirit:
Therefore ahe was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
11 Then bhe remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying,
Where is che that brought them up out of the sea with the ||shepherd of dhis flock?
eWhere is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses fwith his glorious arm,
gDividing the water before them, hto make himself an everlasting name?
13 iThat led them through the deep,
kAs an horse iin the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
14 As a beast goeth down into the valley,
The Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest:
So didst thou lead thy people,
hTo make thyself a glorious name.
15 lLook down from heaven, and behold
mFrom the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory:
Where is thy zeal and thy strength,
||nThe sounding of thy bowels and of othy mercies toward me? are they prestrained?
16 qDoubtless thou art our father,
Though rAbraham be ignorant of us,
And Israel acknowledge us not:
Thou, O Lord, art our father, ||our sredeemer;
Thy name is from everlasting.
17 O Lord, why hast thou tmade us to err from thy ways,
And uhardened our heart from thy fear?
vReturn for thy servants’ sake,
wThe tribes of thine inheritance.
18 xThe people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while:
yOur adversaries zhave trodden down thy sanctuary.
19 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them;
†They were not called by thy name.
64 Oh that thou wouldest arend the heavens, that thou wouldest acome down,
That bthe mountains might flow down at thy presence,
2 As when †the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil,
To make thy name known to thine adversaries,
That the nations may tremble at thy presence!
3 When cthou didst terrible things which we looked not for,
aThou camest down, bthe mountains flowed down at thy presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world dmen have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,
Neither hath the eye ||seen, O God, beside thee,
eWhat he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5 Thou fmeetest him that rejoiceth and gworketh righteousness,
hThose that remember thee in ithy ways:
Behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned:
kIn those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6 But we are all as lan unclean thing,
And mall our righteousnesses are nas filthy rags;
And owe all pdo fade as a leaf;
And our iniquities, like the wind, have qtaken us away.
7 And there is none that rcalleth upon thy name,
That stirreth up himself to take hold of thee:
For sthou hast hid thy face from us,
And hast †consumed us, †because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O Lord, tthou art our father;
uWe are the clay, and vthou our potter;
And wwe all are the work of thy hand.
9 xBe not wroth very sore, O Lord,
yNeither remember iniquity for ever:
Behold, see, we beseech thee, zwe are all thy people.
10 aThy holy cities are a wilderness,
Zion is a wilderness, bJerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and our cbeautiful house,
Where our fathers praised thee,
dIs burned up with fire:
And all eour pleasant things are laid waste.
12 Wilt thou frefrain thyself for these things, O Lord?