Isaiah 64

that you would rend the heavens, and would come down: the mountains would melt away at your presence. 2 They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with fire, that your name might be made known to your enemies: that the nations might tremble at your presence. 3 When you shall do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: you came down, and at your presence the mountains melted away. 4 From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye has not seen, O God, besides you, what things you have prepared for them that wait for you. 5 You have met him that rejoices, and does justice: in your ways they shall remember you: behold you are angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved. 6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 7 There is none that calls upon your name: that rises up, and takes hold of you: you have hid your face from us, and have crushed us in the hand of our iniquity. 8 And now, O Lord, you are our father, and we are clay: and you are our maker, and we all are the works of your hands. 9 Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all your people. 10 The city of your sanctuary has become a desert, Sion is made a desert, Jerusalem is desolate. 11 The house of our holiness, and of our glory, where our fathers praised you, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely things are turned into ruins. 12 Will you refrain yourself, O Lord, upon these things, will you hold your peace, and afflict us vehemently?