Isaiah 63:17–64:1

¹⁷O Lord, why have You ^zmade us stray from Your ways,

And hardened our heart from Your fear?

Return for Your servants’ sake,

The tribes of Your inheritance.

^18aYour holy people have possessed it but a little while;

^bOur adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.

¹⁹We have become like those of old, over whom You never ruled,

Those who were never called by Your name.

64Oh, that You would ¹rend the heavens!

That You would come down!

That the mountains might shake at Your ^apresence—