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^(F1)Oh, that You would tear open the heavens and ^(C1)come down, That the mountains would ^(C2)quake at Your presence—

^(F1)As fire kindles brushwood, as fire causes water to boil— To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the ^(C1)nations may tremble at Your presence!

When You did ^(C1)awesome things which we did not expect, You came down, the mountains quaked at Your presence.

For from days of old ^(C1)they have not heard or perceived by ear, Nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who acts in behalf of one who ^(C2)waits for Him.

You ^(C1)meet him who rejoices in ^(C2)doing righteousness, Who ^(C3)remembers You in Your ways. Behold, ^(C4)You were angry, for we sinned, We continued in ^(F1)our sins for a long time; Yet shall we be saved?

For all of us have become like one who is ^(C1)unclean, And all our ^(C2)righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us ^(C3)wither like a leaf, And our ^(C4)wrongdoings, like the wind, take us away.

There is ^(C1)no one who calls on Your name, Who stirs himself to take hold of You; For You have ^(C2)hidden Your face from us And have ^(F1)surrendered us to the power of our wrongdoings.

But now, LORD, ^(C1)You are our Father; We are the ^(C2)clay, and You our potter, And all of us are the ^(C3)work of Your hand.

Do not be ^(C1)angry beyond measure, LORD, ^(C2)Nor remember wrongdoing forever. Behold, please look, all of us are ^(C3)Your people.

Your ^(C1)holy cities have become a ^(C2)wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Our holy and beautiful ^(C1)house, Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And ^(C2)all our precious things have become a ruin.

Will You ^(C1)restrain Yourself at these things, LORD? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?