64:1 Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!
64:2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!
64:3 For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.
64:4 Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
64:5 You come to the help of those who gladly do right, who remember your ways. But when we continued to sin against them, you were angry. How then can we be saved?
64:6 All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
64:7 No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away because of our sins.
64:8 Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
64:9 Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD; do not remember our sins forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray, for we are all your people.
64:10 Your sacred cities have become a desert; even Zion is a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.
64:11 Our holy and glorious temple, where our fathers praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.
64:12 After all this, O LORD, will you hold yourself back? Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?
64:1 Oh that You would rend the heavens, that You would come down ? / That the mountains would shake at Your presence ?
64:2 Like fire that kindles brushwood, / Like fire that causes water to boil, / To make Your name known to Your adversaries, / That the nations may tremble at Your presence!
64:3 When You did awesome things that we did not expect, / You came down, the mountains shook at Your presence.
64:4 For from of old, men have not heard, / Nor perceived with the ear, / Neither has eye seen a God besides You, / Who acts for him who waits for Him.
64:5 You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, / Those who remember You in Your ways. / Yes, You were angry, for we sinned; / We have been in them for a long time, and shall we be saved?
64:6 For all of us became like him who is unclean, / And all our righteousnesses are like a soiled garment; / And we all wither like a leaf, / And our iniquities, like the wind, carry us away.
64:7 And there is no one who calls upon Your name, / Who stirs himself up to lay hold of You; / For You have hidden Your face from us / And have consumed us by our iniquities.
64:8 But now, Jehovah, You are our Father; / We are the clay; and You, our Potter; / And all of us are the work of Your hand.
64:9 Do not be angry to an extreme, O Jehovah, / Neither remember iniquity forever; / Look now, we pray: We all are Your people.
64:10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness; / Zion is a wilderness, / Jerusalem a desolation.
64:11 Our holy and beautiful house, / Where our fathers praised You, / Is burned with fire; / And all the things that we delighted in have become a ruin.
64:12 Will You restrain Yourself from these, O Jehovah? / Will You keep silent and afflict us to an extreme?