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 in64:7 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 beautiful64:11 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?