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15 Look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassions are restrained toward me.
16 For you are our Father, though Abraham knows us not and Israel does not acknowledge us, you, O Jehovah, are our Father, our Redeemer, from everlasting is your name.
17 O Jehovah, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance. 18 Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. 19 We have become like those of old whom never ruled over you and who were not called by your name.
64 1 Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence, 2 as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! 3 When you did fearful things which we did not look for, you came down; the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, besides you, what he has prepared for him who waits for him. 5 You meet he who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry and we sinned. In them is eternity, shall we be saved? 6 For we have all become as unclean and all our righteous acts are as a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. 7 And there is none who calls upon your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you. For you have hid your face from us and have consumed us through our iniquities.
8 But now, O Jehovah, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter and we are all the work of your hand. 9 Do not be angry very severely, O Jehovah, nor remember iniquity forever. Behold, look, we beseech you, we are all your people.
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
12 Will you restrain yourself for these things, O Jehovah? Will you hold your peace and afflict us very severely?
16 For you are our Father, though Abraham knows us not and Israel does not acknowledge us, you, O Jehovah, are our Father, our Redeemer, from everlasting is your name.
17 O Jehovah, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance. 18 Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. 19 We have become like those of old whom never ruled over you and who were not called by your name.
64 1 Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence, 2 as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! 3 When you did fearful things which we did not look for, you came down; the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, besides you, what he has prepared for him who waits for him. 5 You meet he who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry and we sinned. In them is eternity, shall we be saved? 6 For we have all become as unclean and all our righteous acts are as a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. 7 And there is none who calls upon your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you. For you have hid your face from us and have consumed us through our iniquities.
8 But now, O Jehovah, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter and we are all the work of your hand. 9 Do not be angry very severely, O Jehovah, nor remember iniquity forever. Behold, look, we beseech you, we are all your people.
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
12 Will you restrain yourself for these things, O Jehovah? Will you hold your peace and afflict us very severely?