Isaiah Chapter 64

The prophet prays for the release of his people; and for the remission of their sins.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.
2 They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the nations might tremble at thy presence.
3 When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.
4 From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.
5 Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art 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. Our justices, etc... That is, the works by which we pretended to make ourselves just. This is spoken particularly of the sacrifices, sacraments, and ceremonies of the Jews, after the death of Christ, and the promulgation of the new law.
7 There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.
8 And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.
9 Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people.
10 The city of thy sanctuary is 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 thee, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely things are turned into ruins.
12 Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon these things, wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us vehemently?

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Utinam dirumperes cælos, et descenderes;
a facie tua montes defluerent;
2 sicut exustio ignis tabescerent,
aquæ arderent igni:
ut notum fieret nomen tuum inimicis tuis;
a facie tua gentes turbarentur.
3 Cum feceris mirabilia, non sustinebimus;
descendisti, et a facie tua montes defluxerunt.
4 A sæculo non audierunt, neque auribus perceperunt;
oculus non vidit, Deus, absque te,
quæ præparasti exspectantibus te.
5 Occurristi lætanti, et facienti justitiam;
in viis tuis recordabuntur tui.
Ecce tu iratus es, et peccavimus;
in ipsis fuimus semper, et salvabimur.
6 Et facti sumus ut immundus omnes nos,
et quasi pannus menstruatæ universæ justitiæ nostræ;
et cecidimus quasi folium universi,
et iniquitates nostræ quasi ventus abstulerunt nos.
7 Non est qui invocet nomen tuum;
qui consurgat, et teneat te.
Abscondisti faciem tuam a nobis,
et allisisti nos in manu iniquitatis nostræ.
8 Et nunc, Domine, pater noster es tu,
nos vero lutum;
et fictor noster tu,
et opera manuum tuarum omnes nos.
9 Ne irascaris, Domine, satis,
et ne ultra memineris iniquitatis nostræ;
ecce, respice, populus tuus omnes nos.
10 Civitas Sancti tui facta est deserta,
Sion deserta facta est,
Jerusalem desolata est.
11 Domus sanctificationis nostræ et gloriæ nostræ,
ubi laudaverunt te patres nostri,
facta est in exustionem ignis,
et omnia desiderabilia nostra versa sunt in ruinas.
12 Numquid super his continebis te, Domine;
tacebis, et affliges nos vehementer?

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