| International Standard Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1 If only you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence— | 1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence, |
| 2 just as fire sets twigs ablaze and the fire causes water to boil— to make known your name to your enemies, yes, to your enemies before you, so that the nations might quake at your presence! | 2as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence! |
| 3When you did awesome deeds that we expected, you came down, and the mountains shuddered before you. | 3When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence. |
| 4Since ancient times no one has heard, and no ear has perceived, and no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him. | 4From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him. |
| 5You come to the aid of those who gladly do what's right, To those who remember you in your ways. See, you were angry, and we sinned against them for a long time, but we will be saved. | 5You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins? |
| 6All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a filthy rag; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind, our iniquities sweep us away. | 6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind. |
| 7There is no one who calls on your name or rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have given us into the control of our iniquity. | 7No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity. |
| 8But as for you, O LORD, you are our Father; and we are clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands. | 8But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand. |
| 9Don't be angry beyond measure, LORD, and don't remember our iniquity for a season. Please look now, we are all your people. | 9Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people! |
| 10Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation. | 10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation. |
| 11Our holy Temple and our splendor, where our ancestors praised you, have become a conflagration of fire, and all our dearest places have become ruins. | 11Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins. |
| 12 LORD, after all this, can you hold yourself back? Can you keep silent and punish us so severely? | 12After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure? |
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