1 Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the
mountains might quake 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 didn’t look for, you came down,
the mountains quaked at your presence. 4 For from of old men have not
heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you,
who works for him who waits for him. 5 You meet him who rejoices and works
righteousness, those who remember you in your ways: behold, you were angry,
and we sinned: in them have we been of long time; and shall we be
saved? 6 For we are all become as one who is unclean, and all our
righteousness are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and
our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. 7 There is none who calls on
your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your
face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. 8 But now,
Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we
all are the work of your hand. 9 Don’t be angry very sore, Yahweh,
neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your
people. 10 Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a
wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house,
where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant
places are laid waste. 12 Will you refrain yourself for these things,
Yahweh? will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?
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