Isaiah 64

1. (2) It would be like fire kindling the brush, 1 and the fire then makes the water boil. 1 Then your enemies would know your name, 1 the nations would tremble before you!

2. (3) When you did tremendous things 2 that we were not expecting, 2 we wished that you would come down, 2 so that the mountains would shake at your presence!

3. (4) No one has ever heard, 3 no ear perceived, no eye seen, 3 any God but you. 3 You work for him who waits for you.

4. (5) You favored those who were glad to do justice, 4 those who remembered you in your ways. 4 When you were angry, we kept sinning; 4 but if we keep your ancient ways, we will be saved.

5. (6) All of us are like someone unclean, 5 all our righteous deeds like menstrual rags; 5 we wither, all of us, like leaves; 5 and our misdeeds blow us away like the wind.

6. (7) No one calls on your name 6 or bestirs himself to take hold of you, 6 for you have hidden your face from us 6 and caused our misdeeds to destroy us.

7. (8) But now, Adonai, you are our father; 7 we are the clay, you are our potter; 7 and we are all the work of your hands.

8. (9) Do not be so very angry, Adonai! 8 Don’t remember crime forever. 8 Look, please, we are all your people.

9. (10) Your holy cities have become a desert, 9 Tziyon a desert, Yerushalayim a ruin.

10. (11) Our holy, beautiful house, 10 where our ancestors used to praise you, 10 has been burned to the ground; 10 all we cherished has been ruined.

11. (12) Adonai, after all this, 11 will you still hold back? 11 Will you still stay silent 11 and punish us past endurance?