¹Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down,

that the mountains might shake at Your presence,

²as when the melting fire burns,

as the fire causes the waters to boil,

to make Your name known to Your adversaries,

that the nations may tremble at Your presence!

³When You did awesome things for which we did not look,[#Ps 66:3, 5]

You came down; the mountains quaked at Your presence.

⁴For since the beginning of the world men have not heard,

nor perceived by ear,

neither has the eye seen a God besides You,

who acts for the one who waits for Him.

⁵You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness,[#Ex 20:24]

those who remember You in Your ways.

Behold, You were angry, for we had sinned;

in our sins we remained a long time,

and shall we be saved?

⁶But we all are as an unclean thing,[#Isa 6:5]

and all our righteousness is as filthy rags;

and we all fade as a leaf,

and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

⁷There is no one who calls on Your name,[#Eze 22:30; Hos 7:7]

who stirs up himself to take hold of You;

for You have hidden Your face from us

and have consumed us because of our iniquities.

⁸But now, O Lord , You are our Father;[#Isa 63:16]

we are the clay, and You are our potter;

and we all are the work of Your hand.

⁹Do not be wrathful beyond measure, O Lord ,

nor remember iniquity forever.

Behold, look upon us, we pray,

for we all are Your people.

¹⁰Your holy cities are a wilderness;

Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

¹¹Our holy and beautiful house where our fathers praised You

is burned up with fire;

and all our precious things are laid waste.

¹²Will You refrain Yourself from these things, O Lord ?

Will You hold Your peace and afflict us beyond measure?