| New King James Version | New Living Translation |
| 1Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence— | 1 Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down! How the mountains would quake in your presence! |
| 2As 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! | 2 As fire causes wood to burn and water to boil, your coming would make the nations tremble. Then your enemies would learn the reason for your fame! |
| 3When You did awesome things for which we did not look, You came down, The mountains shook at Your presence. | 3When you came down long ago, you did awesome deeds beyond our highest expectations. And oh, how the mountains quaked! |
| 4For since the beginning of the world Men 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. | 4For since the world began, no ear has heard and no eye has seen a God like you, who works for those who wait for him! |
| 5You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways. You are indeed angry, for we have sinned— In these ways we continue; And we need to be saved. | 5You welcome those who gladly do good, who follow godly ways. But you have been very angry with us, for we are not godly. We are constant sinners; how can people like us be saved? |
| 6But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away. | 6We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind. |
| 7And there is 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. | 7Yet no one calls on your name or pleads with you for mercy. Therefore, you have turned away from us and turned us over to our sins. |
| 8But now, O LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand. | 8And yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We all are formed by your hand. |
| 9Do not be furious, O LORD, Nor remember iniquity forever; Indeed, please look—we all are Your people! | 9Don’t be so angry with us, LORD. Please don’t remember our sins forever. Look at us, we pray, and see that we are all your people. |
| 10Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. | 10Your holy cities are destroyed. Zion is a wilderness; yes, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin. |
| 11Our holy and beautiful temple, Where our fathers praised You, Is burned up with fire; And all our pleasant things are laid waste. | 11The holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned down, and all the things of beauty are destroyed. |
| 12Will You restrain Yourself because of these things, O LORD? Will You hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely? | 12After all this, LORD, must you still refuse to help us? Will you continue to be silent and punish us? |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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