Isaiah 64: 1-9

Isaiah 64:1-9Common English Bible (CEB)

64 [a] If only you would tear open the heavens and come down!
    Mountains would quake before you
2     like fire igniting brushwood or making water boil.
[b] If you would make your name known to your enemies,
    the nations would tremble in your presence.

3 When you accomplished wonders beyond all our expectations;
    when you came down, mountains quaked before you.
4 From ancient times,
    no one has heard,
    no ear has perceived,
    no eye has seen any god but you
    who acts on behalf of those who wait for him![c]
5 You look after those who gladly do right;
    they will praise you for your ways.[d]
But you were angry when we sinned;
    you hid yourself when we did wrong.[e]
6 We have all become like the unclean;
    all our righteous deeds are like a menstrual rag.
All of us wither like a leaf;
    our sins, like the wind, carry us away.
7 No one calls on your name;
    no one bothers to hold on to you,
    for you have hidden yourself from us,
    and have handed us over[f] to our sin.

8 But now, Lord, you are our father.
    We are the clay, and you are our potter.
    All of us are the work of your hand.
9 Don’t rage so fiercely, Lord;
    don’t hold our sins against us forever,
    but gaze now on your people, all of us:

Footnotes:

1. Isaiah 64:1 63:19b in Heb
2. Isaiah 64:2 64:1 in Heb
3. Isaiah 64:4 Heb uncertain
4. Isaiah 64:5 Heb uncertain
5. Isaiah 64:5 Heb uncertain
6. Isaiah 64:7 LXX, cf Syr, Tg, Vulg; MT melted

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