Isaiah 64:2–12

²As fire burns brushwood,

As fire causes water to boil—

To make Your name known to Your adversaries,

That the nations may tremble at Your presence!

³When ^bYou did awesome things for which we did not look,

You came down,

The mountains shook at Your presence.

⁴For since the beginning of the world

^cMen have not heard nor perceived by the ear,

Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,

Who acts for the one who waits for Him.

⁵You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,

Who remembers You in Your ways.

You are indeed angry, for we have sinned—

^dIn these ways we continue;

And we need to be saved.

⁶But we are all like an unclean thing,

And all ^eour righteousnesses are like ²filthy rags;

We all ^ffade as a leaf,

And our iniquities, like the wind,

Have taken us away.

⁷And there is no one who calls on Your name,

Who stirs himself up to take hold of You;

For You have hidden Your face from us,

And have ³consumed us because of our iniquities.

⁸But now, O Lord,

You are our Father;

We are the clay, and You our ^gpotter;

And all we are the work of Your hand.

⁹Do not be furious, O Lord,

Nor remember iniquity forever;

Indeed, please look—we all are Your people!

¹⁰Your holy cities are a wilderness,

Zion is a wilderness,

Jerusalem a desolation.

¹¹Our holy and beautiful ⁴temple,

Where our fathers praised You,

Is burned up with fire;

And all ^hour pleasant things ⁵are laid waste.

¹²ⁱWill You restrain Yourself because of these things, O Lord?

^jWill You ⁶hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?