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Isaiah 64

64 “Yahweh, we wish that you would come down from heaven

and make mountains shake when you arrive!

2 If you made your enemies realize who you are,

the people of other nations would shake with fear in your presence,

just as brushwood ignites or water boils when fire heats it.

3 In the past, you did amazing things that we could not have imagined.

You came down from heaven and the mountains shook because you were there.

4 You act to help those who trust you.

You are the only God that anyone has ever seen who does this.

From ancient times, no one has ever heard about

anyone else doing this.

5 You welcome those who are glad to do what is right.

Those people are careful to live as you want.

However, you became angry because we continually sinned

by not obeying your laws. We do not deserve to have you save us.

6 We have all become like people who are not acceptable to you.

The things we do that we think are good

are actually worthless.

We have all become as weak as a dying leaf,

and our sins have separated us from you,

as if they were a wind that had blown us far away from you.

7 Our people do not pray to you,

and they do not strive to remain loyal to you.

So you no longer help us.

Instead, you let the wrong things we do destroy us.

8 And yet, Yahweh, you are our father.

You made every one of us,

as if we were clay and you were a potter.

9 Yahweh, please do not be so very angry with us.

Please do not keep thinking about the wrong things we have done.

We are all your people, so please pay attention to us.

10 Few people now live in the cities in the land that is special to you.

Enemies have even destroyed the city of Jerusalem on Mount Zion

so that few people live there.

11 Our ancestors praised you in a beautiful sacred temple.

But now enemies have burned that temple down,

and they have destroyed all the things that we treasured there.

12 Since this has happened, Yahweh,

please do not hold yourself back from helping us any longer!

Please do something so that we stop suffering so terribly!”