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Isaiah 64 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Isa 64:1

Isa 64:1O that thou wouldst rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence--

Isa 64:2

Isa 64:2as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil--to make thy name known to thy adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at thy presence!

Isa 64:3

Isa 64:3When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy 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 thee, who works for those who wait for him.

Isa 64:5

Isa 64:5Thou meetest him that joyfully works righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou wast angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?

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 that calls upon thy name, that bestirs himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast delivered us into the hand of our iniquities.

Isa 64:8

Isa 64:8Yet, O LORD, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; we are all the work of thy hand.

Isa 64:9

Isa 64:9Be not exceedingly angry, O LORD, and remember not iniquity for ever. Behold, consider, we are all thy people.

Isa 64:10

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

Isa 64:11

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

Isa 64:12

Isa 64:12Wilt thou restrain thyself at these things, O LORD? Wilt thou keep silent, and afflict us sorely?
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