Isaías 64

1 Oh, that You would rend the heavens!

That You would come down!

That the mountains might shake at Your *Ex. 19:18; Ps. 18:9; 144:5; Mic. 1:3, 4; (Hab. 3:13)presence—

2 As fire burns brushwood,

As fire causes water to boil—

To make Your name known to Your adversaries,

That the nations may tremble at Your presence!

3 When *Ex. 34:10You did awesome things forwhich we did not look,

You came down,

The mountains shook at Your presence.

4 For since the beginning of the world

*Ps. 31:19Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear,

Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,

Who acts for the one who waits for Him.

5 You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,

Who remembers You in Your ways.

You are indeed angry, for we have sinned—

*Mal. 3:6In these ways we continue;

And we need to be saved.

6 But we are all like an unclean thing,

And all *(Phil. 3:9)our righteousnesses are like filthy rags;

We all *Ps. 90:5, 6; Is. 1:30fade as a leaf,

And our iniquities, like the wind,

Have taken us away.

7 And thereis no one who calls on Your name,

Who stirs himself up to take hold of You;

For You have hidden Your face from us,

And have consumed us because of our iniquities.

8 But now, O Lord,

You are our Father;

We are the clay, and You our *Is. 29:16; 45:9; Jer. 18:6; (Rom. 9:20, 21)potter;

And all we are the work of Your hand.

9 Do not be furious, O Lord,

Nor remember iniquity forever;

Indeed, please look—we all are Your people!

10 Your holy cities are a wilderness,

Zion is a wilderness,

Jerusalem a desolation.

11 Our holy and beautiful temple,

Where our fathers praised You,

Is burned up with fire;

And all *Ezek. 24:21our pleasant things are laid waste.

12 *Is. 42:14Will You restrain Yourself because of these things, O Lord?

*Ps. 83:1Will You hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?