Isaiah 64

⁶⁴O that you would tear open the heavens and come down,

so that the mountains would quake at your presence—^*

^2mas when fire kindles brushwood

and the fire causes water to boil—

to make your name known to your adversaries,

so that the nations might tremble at your presence!^*

³When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect,

you came down; the mountains quaked at your presence.^*

⁴From ages past no one has heard,

no ear has perceived,

no eye has seen any God besides you,

who works for those who wait for him.^*

⁵You meet those who gladly do right,

those who remember you in your ways.

But you were angry, and we sinned;

because you hid yourself we transgressed.^n*

⁶We have all become like one who is unclean,

and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth.

We all fade like a leaf,

and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.^*

⁷There is no one who calls on your name

or attempts to take hold of you,

for you have hidden your face from us

and have delivered^o us into the hand of our iniquity.^*

⁸Yet, O Lord, you are our Father;

we are the clay, and you are our potter;

we are all the work of your hand.^*

⁹Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord,

and do not remember iniquity forever.

Now consider, we are all your people.^*

¹⁰Your holy cities have become a wilderness;

Zion has become a wilderness,

Jerusalem a desolation.^*

¹¹Our holy and beautiful house,

where our ancestors praised you,

has been burned by fire,

and all our pleasant places have become ruins.^*

¹²After all this, will you restrain yourself, O Lord?

Will you keep silent and punish us so severely?^*