Isaiah

Isaiah 64 ©

1 The church prayeth God to shew himself with power. 4 She acknowledgeth God's mercy to them that seek him, and confesseth her own unworthiness. 9 She pleadeth for compassion toward her desolate state.

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OH that athou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

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As when 1the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, bto make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

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When thou didst cterrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

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For since the beginning of the world dmen have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye 2seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

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eThou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art *wroth; for we have sinned: fin those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

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But gwe are all as han unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do ifade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, jhave taken us away.

h Le. 5.2.
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kAnd there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for lthou hast hid thy face from us, and hast 3consumed us, 4because of our iniquities.

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But now, O LORD, mthou art our father; nwe are the clay, and thou our potter; and owe all are the work of thy hand.

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¶Be not p*wroth very *sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, qwe are all thy people.

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rThy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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sOur holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

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tWilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very *sore?