Chapter 64.
O that thou wouldest rem the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the
mountains might flow down at thy presence.
As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil,
to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble
at thy presence.
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down,
the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
For since the beginning of the world, men have not heard nor perceived by the
ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared
for him that waiteth for him.
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember
thee in thy ways.
Behold, thou art wroth, for we have sinned.
In those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy
rags, and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind,
have taken us away.
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take
hold of thee.
For thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us because of our
iniquities.
But now, O Lord, thou art our Father, we are the clay, and thou our potter,
and we are all the work of thy hand.
Be not wroth, very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever.
Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a
desolation.
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee,
is burned up with fire, and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord?
Wilt thou hold thy peace and afflict us very sore?