Oh that thou
wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest
come down, that the mountains might flow down at
thy presence,
02 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!
03 When thou didst terrible things which we
looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains
flowed down at thy presence.
04 For since the beginning of the world men have
not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath
the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath
prepared for him that waiteth for him.
05 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.
06 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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07 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.
08 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.
09 Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither
remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we
beseech thee, we are all thy people.
10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a
wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our
fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and
all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O
Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us
very sore?
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