Isaiah 64

Isaiah? God’s servants?

64 ¹O, that You would rend the heavens,
that You would come down so that the mountains would flow down at Your presence,

²as when fire kindles brushwood,
as fire causes water to boil,

to make Your name known to Your adversaries,
that the nations might tremble at Your presence.

³When You did awesome things, which we were not looking for,
You came down, and the mountains quaked at Your presence.

⁴And since ancient times, no one has heard,
none has given ear,
no eye has seen a God besides You,
who acts for those who wait for Him.

⁵You meet him who works righteousness [and rejoiceth him that remembers][2] you in Your ways; in [righteousness there] is continuance, and [such] will be saved.

⁶But [we have sinned][3]; we have all become as one who is unclean,
and our righteous deeds like filthy garments,

and all of us wither like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

⁷[And none][4] calls on Your name,
who rouses Himself to take hold of You,

for You have hidden Your face from us
and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

⁸But now, O  Lord, You are our Father. We are the clay
and You are our potter; all of us are the work of Your hand.

⁹O  Lord, be not exceedingly angry,
nor remember iniquity forever.
Behold, look please, we are all Your people.

¹⁰Your holy cities have become a wilderness.
Zion is a wilderness;
Jerusalem has become desolation.

¹¹Our holy and glorious House {Temple},
where our fathers praised You, has been burned by fire,
and all of our pleasant places have become ruins.

¹²At such things, O  Lord, will You hold yourself back?
Will You keep silent and severely afflict us?