64:1 If thou wouldest open the heaven,
trembling will take hold upon the mountains from thee, and they shall melt,
64:2 as wax melts before the fire; and fire shall burn up the enemies, and
thy name shall be manifest among the adversaries: at thy presence the
nations shall be troubled,
64:3 whenever thou shalt work gloriously; trembling from thee shall take
hold upon the mountains.
64:4 From of old we have not heard, neither have our eyes seen a God beside
thee, and thy works which thou wilt perform to them that wait for mercy.
64:5 For [these blessings] shall happen to them that work righteousness, and
they shall remember thy ways: behold, thou wast angry and we have sinned;
therefore we have erred,
64:6 and we are all become as unclean, and all our righteousness as a filthy
rag: and we have fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind
shall carry us [away].
64:7 And there is none that calls upon thy name, or that remembers to take
hold on thee: for thou hast turned thy face away from us, and hast delivered
us up because of our sins.
64:8 And now, O Lord, thou art our Father, and we are clay, all [of us] the
work of thine hands.
64:9 Be not very wroth with us, and remember not our sins for ever; but now
look on [us], for we are all thy people.
64:10 The city of thy holiness has become desolate, Sion has become as a
wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.
64:11 The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has
been burnt with fire: and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.
64:12 And for all these things thou, O Lord, has withholden, thyself, and
been silent, and hast brought us very low. |
64:1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens,
that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy
presence,
64:2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil,
to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at
thy presence!
64:3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest
down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
64:4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived
by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath
prepared for him that waiteth for him.
64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that
remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in
those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as
filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the
wind, have taken us away.
64:7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself
to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed
us, because of our iniquities.
64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our
potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
64:9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever:
behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
64:10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a
desolation.
64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is
burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
64:12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy
peace, and afflict us very sore? |