Isaiah 64
1 As fire kindles the brushwood and makes water boil, so your name would be made known to your adversaries! The nations would tremble before you.
2 When you did awesome things we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains melted before you.
3 From of old, no one has heard, no one has paid attention, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.
4 You meet those who gladly do what is right, those who remember you in your ways. You were angry, and we sinned; we have been in them from of old—and shall we be saved?
5 We have all become like something unclean, and all our righteous deeds like filthy clothing; we have all withered like a leaf, and our guilt carries us away like the wind.
6 There is no one who calls on your name, or rouses himself to cling to you, for you have hidden your face from us and made us melt under the weight of our guilt.
7 But now, LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter, and we are all the work of your hand.
8 Do not be too angry, LORD, and do not remember our guilt forever. Please look: we are all your people.
9 Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, and Jerusalem a desolation.
10 Our holy and glorious house, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned by fire, and everything precious to us has become a ruin.
11 In view of all this, will you hold back, LORD? Will you remain silent and afflict us so greatly?
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