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| 1 If only you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence— | 1Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! |
| 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 when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you! |
| 3When you did awesome deeds that we expected, you came down, and the mountains shuddered before you. | 3For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you. |
| 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. | 4Since 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 come to the help of those who gladly do right, who remember your ways. But when we continued to sin against them, you were angry. How then can we be saved? |
| 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. | 6All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. |
| 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 lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and have given us over to our sins. |
| 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. | 8Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, 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 beyond measure, LORD; do not remember our sins forever. Oh, look on us, we pray, for we are all your people. |
| 10Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation. | 10Your sacred cities have become a wasteland; even Zion is a wasteland, 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 glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured 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, LORD, will you hold yourself back? Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure? |
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