International Standard Version
Isaiah 64
1 a If only you would tear open the heavens and b come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence—
2 c just as fire sets twigs d ablaze and the fire causes water to boil— to make known your name to your enemies, yes, to your enemies before you, e so that the nations might quake at your presence!
3 When you did awesome deeds that we expected, f you came down, and the mountains shuddered before you.
4 Since g ancient times no one has heard, and h no ear has perceived, and i no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
5 You come to the aid of those who gladly do what’s right, To those who remember you in your ways. See, you were angry, and we sinned against them for a long time, but we will be saved.
6 All of us have become like one who is unclean, and j all our righteous acts are like a filthy rag; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind, our iniquities k sweep us away.
7 There is no one who calls on your name or rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have given us l into the control m of our iniquity.
8 But as for you, n O LORD, you are our Father; and o we are clay, p and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands. q
9 Don’t be angry beyond measure, LORD, and don’t remember our iniquity for a season. r Please look now, we are all your people.
10 Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like s a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy Temple and our splendor, where our ancestors praised you, have become t a conflagration of fire, and all our dearest places have become u ruins.
12 LORD, after all this, can you hold yourself back? Can you keep silent and punish us so severely?