THE BOOK OF ISAIAH

 

Isaiah Chapter 64

1 ¶ Oh that you would tear the heavens open, and would come down, so that the mountains might flow down at your presence,

2 Like when fire kindles dry twigs, and causes water to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations may tremble at your presence!

3 When you did terrifying things that we did not expect, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

4 For since the beginning of the world no man has heard, or listened to with his ear, or seen with his eyes, any God, besides you, who acts on behalf of the one who waits for him.

5 You welcome him who joyfully does what is right, those who remember you in your ways: but we have sinned, and you are angry: we continued long in them, shall we be saved?

6 ¶ For we are all like an unclean thing, and all of our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; and we all wither like a leaf; and our iniquities sweep us away like the wind.

7 And there is no one who calls on your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you: for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.

8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

9 Do not be exceedingly angry, O LORD, or remember our sin forever: Please look, and see that we are all your people.

10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

11 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned with fire: and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

12 In view of these things will you hold back, O LORD? will you remain silent, and afflict us beyond measure?