Isaiah, Chapter 64

1. Oh that you would burst the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down at your presence,    2. As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!    3. When you did awesome things which we did not expect, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence.    4. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, except you, what he has prepared for him that waits for him.    5. You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold, you are angry; for we have sinned: in faithfulness is continuance, and in it we shall be saved.    6. But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; and we all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.    7. And there is none that calls upon your name, that stirs himself up to take hold of you: for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.    8. But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.    9. Be not greatly angry, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we plead with you, we are all your people.    10. Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.    11. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.    12. Will you restrain yourself at these things, O LORD? will you hold your peace, and afflict us greatly?