Isaiah 64
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Isaiah 64:1
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Oh, that You would rend the heavens {and} come down, That the mountains might quake at Your presence--
Isaiah 64:2
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As fire kindles the brushwood, {as} fire causes water to boil-- To make Your name known to Your adversaries, {That} the nations may tremble at Your presence!
Isaiah 64:3
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When You did awesome things which we did not expect, You came down, the mountains quaked at Your presence.
Isaiah 64:4
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For from days of old they have not heard or perceived by ear, Nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him.
Isaiah 64:5
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You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we sinned, {We continued} in them a long time; And shall we be saved?
Isaiah 64:6
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For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Isaiah 64:7
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There is no one who calls on Your name, Who arouses himself to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us And have delivered us into the power of our iniquities.
Isaiah 64:8
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But now, O LORD, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand.
Isaiah 64:9
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Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD, Nor remember iniquity forever; Behold, look now, all of us are Your people.
Isaiah 64:10
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Your holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Isaiah 64:11
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Our holy and beautiful house, Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned {by} fire; And all our precious things have become a ruin.
Isaiah 64:12
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Will You restrain Yourself at these things, O LORD? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
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