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| Isaiah 64:1 |
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Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that
thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, |
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| Isaiah 64:2 |
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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! |
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| Isaiah 64:3 |
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When thou didst terrible things which we looked
not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. |
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| Isaiah 64:4 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 64:5 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 64:6 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 64:7 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 64:8 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 64:9 |
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Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember
iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. |
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| Isaiah 64:10 |
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Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a
wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. |
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| Isaiah 64:11 |
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Our holy and our beautiful house, where our
fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are
laid waste. |
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| Isaiah 64:12 |
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Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things,
O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? |
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