Isaiah Chapter 64
64:1Oh that you’d open the sky and come down
and the mountains would quake in your presence—
2 like a flame that burns brush and boils water—
to show yourself to your adversaries
so they’d tremble in your presence!
3 When you did awesome things we didn’t expect,
you came down and the mountains quaked in your presence.
4 No one has ever heard of a God like you
that acts on behalf of people that wait for him.
5 You visit those who enjoy doing good,
who remember you and your ways.
You were angry because we kept sinning for a long time;
can we ever be saved?
6 We’ve all become unclean;
our best efforts are like menstrual rags.
We wither like leaves;
our sins blow us away like the wind.
7 No one calls on you or reaches out to you
because you’ve hid from us
and delivered us to the consequences of our sins.
Is 64:1-7
8 But now, Yahveh, you’re our Father;
we’re the clay, you’re the potter;
you’ve made us.
9 Don’t be angry beyond measure;
don’t hold our sin against us forever;
look now, we’re all your people.
10 Your holy cities have become a desert;
Zion is a wasteland;
Jerusalem is desolate.
11 Our holy, beautiful Temple,
where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned;
all our precious things lie in ruins.
12 Will you limit yourself to this much retribution,
or will you keep disciplining us no end?
Is 64:8-12