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Isaiah 64 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Isa 64:1

Isa 64:1O let the heavens be broken open and come down, so that the mountains may be shaking before you,

Isa 64:2

Isa 64:2As when fire puts the brushwood in flames, or as when water is boiling from the heat of the fire: to make your name feared by your haters, so that the nations may be shaking before you;

Isa 64:3

Isa 64:3While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.

Isa 64:4

Isa 64:4The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ... any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.

Isa 64:5

Isa 64:5Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.

Isa 64:6

Isa 64:6For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.

Isa 64:7

Isa 64:7And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

Isa 64:8

Isa 64:8But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

Isa 64:9

Isa 64:9Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.

Isa 64:10

Isa 64:10Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.

Isa 64:11

Isa 64:11Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.

Isa 64:12

Isa 64:12In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?
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