Isaiah 64
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Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens,
that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at
thy presence,
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as when the melting fire burneth,
the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine
adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy
presence!
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When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains
flowed down at thy presence.
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For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath
the eye seen, O God, besides thee, what he hath prepared for
him that waiteth for him. 1 Cor. 2.9
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Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and
worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways:
behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance,
and we shall be saved.
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But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;
and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind,
have taken us away.
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And there is none that calleth
upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for
thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our
iniquities.
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But now, O LORD,
thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our
potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
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Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see,
we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
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Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is
a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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Our holy and our beautiful house, where
our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our
pleasant things are laid waste.
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Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy
peace, and afflict us very sore?
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