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¹ Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence, ² as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! ³ When you did terrible things which we didn't look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. ⁴ For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him. ⁵ You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways: behold, you were angry, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be saved?

⁶ For we are all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. ⁷ There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. ⁸ But now, LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. ⁹ Don't be angry very sore, LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people. ¹⁰ Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Tziyon is become a wilderness, Yerushalayim a desolation. ¹¹ Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste. ¹² Will you refrain yourself for these things, LORD? will you hold your shalom, and afflict us very sore?