Isaiah 64
1“Oh, if you had split open the heavens and come down! The mountains would have shaken at your presence, 1
2as when fire kindles the brushwood, or the fire makes water boil. 1 Oh, that your name would be known by your adversaries, that the nations would tremble at your presence! 1
3Previously, when you did marvelous things that we had not expected, you came down, and the mountains trembled at your presence. 1
4Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, 1 nor eye seen any God besides you, who does things for him who waits for him. 1
5You come to help those who rejoice in doing what is right, those who call to mind your ways and obey them. 1 You were angry when we sinned. In your ways we will always be rescued. 1
6For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a menstrual rag. 1 We have all withered like leaves; our iniquities, like the wind, carry us away. 1
7There are none who calls on your name, who makes an effort to take hold of you. 1 For you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away in the hand of our iniquities. 1
8Yet, Yahweh, you are our father; 1 we are the clay. You are our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. 1
9Be not too angry, Yahweh, nor always call to mind against us our sins. 1 Please look at us all, your people. 1
10Your holy cities have become a wilderness; 1 Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 1
11Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised you, 1 has been destroyed by fire, and all that was so dear is in ruins. 1
12How can you still hold back, Yahweh? How can you remain silent and continue to humiliate us?”