15 Look from heaven

≈ and see from your wonderful, holy residence.

Where’s your actions full of zeal and power?

Your inner motivation and your compassion have restrained themselves from me.

16 Yes, you are our father, although Avraham doesn’t know us

≈ and Yisrael doesn’t recognise us.

You, Yahweh, are our father

and the one who bought us our freedom long ago.

17 Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your paths—

hardening our hearts so we don’t want to obey you.

Return for your servants’ sake—

the tribes who are your inheritance.

18 For a while, your holy people possessed your sanctuary.

Now our enemies have trampled over your sacred place.

19 We’ve become like those who you never ruled over—

≈ like those who never called to you for help.

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?