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Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that
the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
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As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to
make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at
thy presence!
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When thou didst terrible 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 men have not heard, nor perceived by
the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath
prepared for him that waiteth for him.
64:5
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that
remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in
those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as
filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the
wind, have taken us away.
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And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to
take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us,
because of our iniquities.
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But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our
potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
64:9
Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever:
behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
64:10
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a
desolation.
64:11
Our 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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Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy
peace, and afflict us very sore?
