1: 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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2: 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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3:
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou
camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. |
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4: 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. |
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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. |
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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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7: 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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8: 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. |
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9: Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for
ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. |
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10: Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation. |
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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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12: Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou
hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? |