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| 64:1 |
O that thou wouldst rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence --
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| 64:2 |
as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil -- to make thy name known to thy adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at thy presence!
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| 64:3 |
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.
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| 64:4 |
From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides thee, who works for those who wait for him.
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| 64:5 |
Thou meetest him that joyfully works righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou wast angry, and we sinned;in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?
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| 64:6 |
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
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| 64:7 |
There is no one that calls upon thy name, that bestirs himself to take hold of thee;for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast delivered us into the hand of our iniquities.
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| 64:8 |
Yet, O LORD, thou art our Father;we are the clay, and thou art our potter;we are all the work of thy hand.
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| 64:9 |
Be not exceedingly angry, O LORD, and remember not iniquity for ever. Behold, consider, we are all thy people.
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| 64:10 |
Thy holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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| 64:11 |
Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
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| 64:12 |
Wilt thou restrain thyself at these things, O LORD? Wilt thou keep silent, and afflict us sorely?
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