the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Isaiah 64
1 (a)Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
(b)that the mountains might quake at your presence—
2 [a] as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
(c)to make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
3 (d)When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 (e)From of old no one has heard
or perceived by the ear,
(f)no eye has seen a God besides you,
who acts for those who wait for him.
5 You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?[b]
6 (g)We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
(h)We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 (i)There is no one who calls upon your name,
who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have made us melt in[c] the hand of our iniquities.
8 (j)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
(k)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
(l)we are all the work of your hand.
9 (m)Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,
(n)and remember not iniquity forever.
Behold, please look, we are all your people.
10 (o)Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 (p)Our holy and beautiful[d] house,
where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
12 (q)Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord?
Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?
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