Isaiah 64 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Isa 64:1Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
that the mountains might quake at your presence—

Isa 64:2 [fn] as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
to make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!

Isa 64:3

Isa 64:3When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

Isa 64:4

Isa 64:4From of old no one has heard
or perceived by the ear,
no eye has seen a God besides you,
who acts for those who wait for him.

Isa 64:5

Isa 64:5You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?[fn]

Isa 64:6

Isa 64:6We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Isa 64:7

Isa 64:7There is no one who calls upon your name,
who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have made us melt in[fn] the hand of our iniquities.

Isa 64:8

Isa 64:8But now, O LORD, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.

Isa 64:9

Isa 64:9Be not so terribly angry, O LORD,
and remember not iniquity forever.
Behold, please look, we are all your people.

Isa 64:10

Isa 64:10Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

Isa 64:11

Isa 64:11Our holy and beautiful[fn] house,
where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

Isa 64:12

Isa 64:12Will you restrain yourself at these things, O LORD?
Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?

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(64:2)

Ch 64:1 in Hebrew

(64:5)

Or in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved

(64:7)

Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum have delivered us into

(64:11)

Or holy and glorious

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Isaiah 64 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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