Isa 64 | ESV | STEP | Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down , that the mountains might quake at your presence

‏ Isaiah 64

1 ^aOh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
^bthat the mountains might quake at your presence—
2 ^{▼▼Ch 64:1 in Hebrew} as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
^dto make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
3 ^eWhen you did awesome things that we did not look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 ^fFrom of old no one has heard
or perceived by the ear,
^gno 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? ^{▼▼Or in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved}
6 ⁱWe have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
^jWe all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 ^kThere 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 in ^{▼▼Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum have delivered us into} the hand of our iniquities.
8 ^mBut now, O Lord, you are our Father;
ⁿwe are the clay, and you are our potter;
^owe are all the work of your hand.
9 ^pBe not so terribly angry, O Lord,
^qand remember not iniquity forever.
Behold, please look, we are all your people.
10 ^rYour holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 ^sOur holy and beautiful ^{▼▼Or holy and glorious} house,
where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
12 ^uWill you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord?
Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?