64:1 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,
64:2 as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
64:3 When you did awesome things which we didn't look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
64:4 For from of old men haven't heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.
64:5 You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways: look, you were angry, and we sinned: in them [we have been] of long time; and shall we be saved?
64:6 For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and all of us fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
64:7 And there is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
64:8 But now, O Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and all of us are the work of your hand.
64:9 Don't be angry very intensely, O Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we urge you, we are all your people.
64:10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
64:12 Will you refrain yourself for these things, O Yahweh? Will you hold your peace, and afflict us very intensely?