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Isaiah 64
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1If you would open the heaven, trembling will take hold upon the mountains from you, and they shall melt,
1Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
2as wax melts before the fire; and fire shall burn up the enemies, and your name shall be manifest among the adversaries: at your presence the nations shall be troubled,
2As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
3whenever you shall work gloriously; trembling from you shall take hold upon the mountains .
3When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
4From of old we have not heard, neither have our eyes seen a Godbeside you, and your works which you will perform to them that wait for mercy.
4For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5For [these blessings] shall happen to them that work righteousness, and they shall remember your ways: behold, you were angry and we have sinned; therefore we have erred,
5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6and we are all become as unclean , and all our righteousness as a filthy rag: and we have fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind shall carry us [away].
6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7And there is none that calls upon your name, or that remembers to take hold on you: for you have turned your face away from us, and have delivered us up because of our sins.
7And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
8And now, O Lord, you are our Father, and we are clay, all [of us] the work of your hands.
8But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
9Be not very angry with us, and remember not our sins for ever; but now look on [us], for we are all your people.
9Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
10The city of your holiness has become desolate, Sion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.
10Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burnt with fire: and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.
11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12And for all these things you, O Lord, has withholden, yourself, and been silent, and have brought us very low.
12Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?