Isaiah 64

1 *[2 Sam. 22:10;Ps. 18:9;144:5] Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,

*Judg. 5:5;Mic. 1:4that the mountains might quake at your presence—

2 * 64:2 Ch 64:1 in Hebrew as when fire kindles brushwood

and the fire causes water to boil—

*[Josh. 2:9,10]to make your name known to your adversaries,

and that the nations might tremble at your presence!

3 *[Ex. 14:13;15:11]When you did awesome things that we did not look for,

you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

4 *[Ps. 31:19] From of old no one has heard

or perceived by the ear,

*[1 Cor. 2:9]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?*64:5 Or in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved

6 *See ch. 59:12-15We have all become like one who is unclean,

and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.

*Ps. 90:5,6We all fade like a leaf,

and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

7 *ch. 43:22;Hos. 7:7There 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*64:7 Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum have delivered us into the hand of our iniquities.

8 *ch. 63:16But now, O Lord, you are our Father;

*ch. 45:9;Rom. 9:20,21we are the clay, and you are our potter;

*ch. 29:23;45:11we are all the work of your hand.

9 *[ch. 57:16;Ps. 74:1,2] Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,

*Ps. 79:8and remember not iniquity forever.

Behold, please look, we are all your people.

10 *Neh. 1:3;2:3Your holy cities have become a wilderness;

Zion has become a wilderness,

Jerusalem a desolation.

11 *Hag. 1:9;2:3;[2 Kgs. 25:9;2 Chr. 36:19;Ps. 74:7]Our holy and beautiful*64:11 Or holy and glorious house,

where our fathers praised you,

has been burned by fire,

and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

12 *ch. 42:14;[Zech. 1:12]Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord?

Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?