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
1 OH, THAT You would rend the heavens and that You would come down, that the mountains might quake and flow down at Your presence–
2 As when fire kindles the brushwood and the fire causes the waters to boil–to make Your name known to Your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at Your presence!
3 When You did terrible things which we did not expect, You came down; the mountains quaked at Your presence.
4 For from of old no one has heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who works and shows Himself active on behalf of him who [earnestly] waits for Him.
5 You meet and spare him who joyfully works righteousness (uprightness and justice), [earnestly] remembering You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we sinned; we have long continued in our sins [prolonging Your anger]. And shall we be saved?
6 For we have all become like one who is unclean [ceremonially, like a leper], and all our righteousness (our best deeds of rightness and justice) is like filthy rags or a polluted garment; we all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away [far from God's favor, hurrying us toward destruction]. [Lev. 13:45, 46.]
7 And no one calls on Your name and awakens and bestirs himself to take and keep hold of You; for You have hidden Your face from us and have delivered us into the [consuming] power of our iniquities. [Rom. 1:21-24.]
8 Yet, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our Potter, and we all are the work of Your hand.
9 Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord, or [seriously] remember iniquity forever. Behold, consider, we beseech You, we are all Your people.
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house, [the temple] where our fathers praised You, is burned with fire, and all our pleasant and desirable places are in ruins.
12 Considering these [calamities], will You restrain Yourself, O Lord [and not come to our aid]? Will You keep silent and not command our deliverance but humble and afflict us exceedingly?
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