Open English Translation ISA Chapter 64

64 If you’d torn the skies open, then had come down,

the mountains would have shaken in front of you.

2 Just as fire ignites twigs and boils water,

making your name known to your enemies will make the nations tremble in front of you.

3 When you did amazing things that we weren’t expecting, you came down.

The mountains shook in front of you.

4 Since ancient times, no one has heard,

≈ and people’s ears haven’t listened to anything like that.

No eye has seen any god other than you,

→ who takes action for those who wait, expecting his help.[ref]

5 You meet the one who is happy and who does what is right—

who remembers your instructions.

Listen, you were angry because we sinned over a long period

but now we will be saved.

6 We’ve all become like someone ‘unclean’

≈ and all the good things we do are like a used menstrual rag.

Because of our acts of disobedience,

all of us have been like leaves that withered and were carried off like the wind.

7 There’s no one left who calls on your name—

≈ no one who stirs themself up to take hold of you,

because you’ve hidden yourself from us

and allowed our acts of disobedience to dissolve us away.

8 But now, Yahweh, you are our father.

We are the clay, and you’re our potter,

and all of us are the your handiwork.

9 Don’t be excessively angry, Yahweh,

≈ and don’t remember our disobedience forever.

Wow, please look here—all of us are your people.

10 Your sacred cities have become a wilderness:

Tsiyyon (Zion) has become a wilderness.

≈ Yerushalem (Jerusalem) became a desolation.

11 Our sacred and beautiful temple, where our ancestors praised you,

has now been burnt,

≈ and everything that we liked there is in ruins.

12 After those, will you restrain yourself, Yahweh?

Will you remain silent as you make us suffer so much?

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