Isaiah 64
64
1 # 64.1 63:19b in Heb If only you would tear open the heavens and come down!
Mountains would quake before you
2like fire igniting brushwood or making water boil.
# 64.2 64:1 in Heb If you would make your name known to your enemies,
the nations would tremble in your presence.
3When you accomplished wonders beyond all our expectations;
when you came down, mountains quaked before you.
4From ancient times,
no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any god but you
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him!#64.4 Heb uncertain
5You look after those who gladly do right;
they will praise you for your ways.#64.5 Heb uncertain
But you were angry when we sinned;
you hid yourself when we did wrong.#64.5 Heb uncertain
6We have all become like the unclean;
all our righteous deeds are like a menstrual rag.
All of us wither like a leaf;
our sins, like the wind, carry us away.
7No one calls on your name;
no one bothers to hold on to you,
for you have hidden yourself from us,
and have handed us over#64.7 LXX, cf Syr, Tg, Vulg; MT melted to our sin.
8But now, LORD, you are our father.
We are the clay, and you are our potter.
All of us are the work of your hand.
9Don’t rage so fiercely, LORD;
don’t hold our sins against us forever,
but gaze now on your people, all of us:
10Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a wasteland.
11Our holy, glorious house,
where our ancestors praised you,
has gone up in flames;
all that we treasured has become a ruin.
12After all this, will you hold back, LORD?
Will you keep silent and torment us so terribly?
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Isaiah 64
64
LXIV
1O that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down,
That the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
2As the fire kindleth the dry fuel,
As the fire causeth the waters to boil,
To make known thy name to thine adversaries,
That the nations may tremble at thy presence.
3When thou didst terrible things, which we expected not;
Thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
4For from the remotest time men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear.
Neither hath the eye seen any God beside Thee,
That doeth such things for those who wait for him.
5Thou meetest them that rejoice and do justice,
Those that remember thee in thy ways:
Behold, thou wast wroth, when we sinned;
Thou watt against them of old, and shall we be saved?
6We are all of us as an unclean thing,
And all our righteousnesses are as a filthy garment;
And we are all of us withered like a leaf;
And our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away.
7There is none that calleth upon thy name,
That stirreth up himself to take hold of thee;
For thou hast hid thy face from us,
And caused us to melt away by reason of our sins.
8But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father;
We are the clay, and thou hast formed us:
We are all of us the work of thy hand.
9Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah,
Neither remember iniquity for ever:
Behold! see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
10Thy holy cities are a wilderness,
Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11Our holy and our beautiful house,
Where our fathers praised thee,
Is burned up with fire;
And all the objects of our desire are laid waste.
12Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah?
Wilt thou keep silence, and afflict us very sore?
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Translated by Rev John Jones (Ioan Tegid).Published at Oxford in 1830, second edition 1842.