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¹ Oh that you would rend 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 awesome things which we didn't look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.⁴ For from of old men haven't heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him that waits for him.⁵ You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: look, you were angry, and we sinned: in them [we have been] of long time; and shall we be saved?

⁶ For we have all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.⁷ And there is none that calls on your name, that 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, O Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and all of us are the work of your hand.⁹ Don't be angry very intensely, O Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we urge you, we are all your people.¹⁰ Your holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.¹¹ Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.¹² Will you refrain yourself for these things, O Yahweh? will you hold your peace, and afflict us very intensely?