Isaiah 64
64
1If only you would rip the heavens apart and come down! The mountains would tremble in your presence!#64:1. This verse is included in the previous chapter in the Hebrew text. 2In the same way that fire burns wood and makes water boil, make your reputation known to your enemies, so that nations will tremble in your presence! 3In the past you did things we weren't anticipating. You came down and the mountains trembled in your presence! 4Since the beginning, no one has heard about, no one has paid attention to, and no one has seen any God except you, the one who helps those who place their confidence in you. 5You join with those who are glad, and with those who do what's right and remember to follow your ways. But when we went on sinning, you became angry. How can we be saved if we go on like this?#64:5. The Hebrew of the end of this verse is unclear. 6We've all become unclean, and all the good things we do are like dirty rags. We wither and die like autumn leaves, and our sins, like the wind, blow us away. 7There's no one who calls for you or really wants to hold on to you, because you have hidden your face from us and let us drown in our own sins.
8But you, Lord, are our Father. We're the clay, you're the potter. You made us all with your own hands. 9Please limit your anger, Lord, and don't remember our sins forever. Look at us, and see that we are all your people. 10Your holy cities have been turned into a wilderness; Zion has become a desert; yes, even Jerusalem is an abandoned ruin. 11Our beautiful, holy Temple where our forefathers praised you has been burned down, and all that we treasured has been destroyed. 12In view of all this, are you still going to refuse to help us? Are you going to stay quiet and punish us so severely?
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Isaiah 64
64
1Oh, that thou wouldest breake the heauens, and come downe, and that the mountaines might melt at thy presence! 2As the melting fire burned, as the fire caused the waters to boyle, (that thou mightest declare thy Name to thy aduersaries) the people did tremble at thy presence. 3When thou diddest terrible things, which we looked not for, thou camest downe, and the mountaines melted at thy presence. 4For since the beginning of the world they haue not heard nor vnderstande with the eare, neither hath ye eye seene another God beside thee, which doeth so to him that waiteth for him. 5Thou diddest meete him, that reioyced in thee, and did iustly: they remembred thee in thy wayes: beholde, thou art angrie, for we haue sinned: yet in them is continuance, and we shall be saued. 6But we haue all bene as an vncleane thing, and all our righteousnes is as filthie cloutes, and we all doe fade like a leafe, and our iniquities like the winde haue taken vs away. 7And there is none that calleth vpon thy Name, neither that stirreth vp himselfe to take holde of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from vs, and hast consumed vs because of our iniquities. 8But now, O Lord, thou art our Father: we are the clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the worke of thine hands. 9Be not angry, O Lord, aboue measure, neither remember iniquitie for euer: lo, we beseech thee beholde, we are all thy people. 10Thine holy cities lye waste: Zion is a wildernes, and Ierusalem a desart. 11The House of our Sanctuarie and of our glorie, where our fathers praysed thee, is burnt vp with fire and all our pleasant things are wasted. 12Wilt thou holde thy selfe still at these things, O Lord? wilt thou holde thy peace and afflict vs aboue measure?
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