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1 Would that you would tear [the] heavens [and] come down; [the] mountains would quake before you,
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Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!
2 as fire kindles brushwood, [the] fire causes water to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, [that the] nations might tremble from your {presence}.
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As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!
3 When you did terrible deeds [which] we did not {expect}, you came down; [the] mountains quaked because of your {presence}.
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For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.
4 And since ancient [times] they have not heard, have not listened, no eye has seen a God except you; he {acts} for the one who waits for him.
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Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
5 You meet with the one who rejoices, one who does righteousness. In your ways they remember you. Look! You were angry and we sinned against them [in] ancient [times] and we were saved.
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You come to the help of those who gladly do right, who remember your ways. But when we continued to sin against them, you were angry. How then can we be saved?
6 And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like [a] leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind.
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All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
7 And there is no one who calls on your name, who pulls himself up to keep hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us, and melted us into the hand of our iniquity.
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No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and have given us over to our sins.
8 Yet now Yahweh, you [are] our father; we [are] the clay and you [are] our {potter}, and we all [are] the work of your hand.
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Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
9 You must not be exceedingly angry, Yahweh, and you must not remember iniquity forever! Look! Behold, now! We all [are] your people!
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Do not be angry beyond measure, LORD; do not remember our sins forever. Oh, look on us, we pray, for we are all your people.
10 {Your holy cities} have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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Your sacred cities have become a wasteland; even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 {Our holy and beautiful temple}, where our ancestors praised you has {been burned} [by] fire, and all our precious objects have become ruins.
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Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.
12 Will you control yourself because of these, Yahweh? Will you be silent? And will you oppress us exceedingly?
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After all this, LORD, will you hold yourself back? Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?
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