Isaiah 64

Revised Geneva Translation

64 Oh, that You would break the heavens and come down, that the mountains might melt at Your presence!

² As the melting fire burned, the fire caused the waters to boil, (so that You might declare Your Name to Your adversaries) the people trembled at Your presence.

³ When You did terrible things, which we did not look for, You came down and the mountains melted at Your presence.

⁴ For since the beginning of the world, they have neither heard nor understood with the ear. Nor has the eye seen another God beside You Who does so to him who waits for Him.

⁵ You met him who rejoiced and did justly. They remembered You in Your ways. Behold, You are angry, for we have sinned, continually. Yet, we shall be saved.

⁶ For we have all been as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness as filthy cloths. And we all fade like a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

⁷ And there is no one who calls upon Your Name, or who stirs himself up to take hold of You. For You have hidden 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 are our Potter. And we all are the work of Your Hands.

⁹ Do not be angry above measure, O LORD, or remember iniquity forever. Lo, we beg You. Behold, we are all Your people.

¹⁰ Your holy cities lie desolate. Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desert.

¹¹ The House of our Sanctuary, and of our glory, where our fathers praised You, is burnt up with fire. And all our pleasant things are wasted.

¹² Will You hold Yourself still at these things, O LORD? Will You hold Your peace and afflict us above measure?