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[1]Oh, that thou wouldest break the heavens, and come down, and that the mountains might melt at thy presence!
[2]As the melting fire burned, as the fire caused the waters to boil, (that thou mightest declare thy name to thy adversaries) the people did tremble at thy presence.
[3]When thou didst terrible things, which we looked not for, thou camest down, and the mountains melted at thy presence.
[4]For since the beginning of the world they have not heard nor understand with the ear, neither hath the eye seen another God beside thee, which doeth so to him that waiteth for him.
[5]Thou didst meet him, that rejoiced in thee, and did justly: they remembered thee in thy ways: behold, thou art angry, for we have sinned: yet in them is continuance, and we shall be saved.
[6]But we have all been as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness is as filthy clothes, and we all do fade like a leaf, and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away.
[7]And there is none that calleth upon thy name, neither 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.
[8]But now, O Lord, thou art our Father: we are the clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the work of thine hands.
[9]Be not angry, O Lord, above measure, neither remember iniquity forever: lo, we beseech thee behold, we are all thy people.
[10]Thine holy cities lie waste: Zion is a wilderness, and Jerusalem a desert.
[11]The house of our sanctuary and of our glory, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire and all our pleasant things are wasted.
[12]Wilt thou hold thyself still at these things, O Lord? Wilt thou hold thy peace and afflict us above measure?
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