The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
King James Version KJV
1 ) We wish you would tear open heaven and come down, so the mountains would shake at your presence!
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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,
2 It would be like fire kindling the brush, and the fire then makes the water boil. Then your enemies would know your name, the nations would tremble before you!
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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!
3 When you did tremendous things that we were not expecting, we wished that you would come down, so that the mountains would shake at your 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.
4 No one has ever heard, no ear perceived, no eye seen, any God but you. You work for him who waits for you.
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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.
5 You favored those who were glad to do justice, those who remembered you in your ways. When you were angry, we kept sinning; but if we keep your ancient ways, we will be saved.
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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.
6 All of us are like someone unclean, all our righteous deeds like menstrual rags; we wither, all of us, like leaves; and our misdeeds blow us away like the wind.
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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.
7 No one calls on your name or bestirs himself to take hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us and caused our misdeeds to destroy us.
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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.
8 But now, ADONAI, you are our father; we are the clay, you are our potter; and we are all the work of your hands.
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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.
9 Do not be so very angry, ADONAI! Don't remember crime forever. Look, please, we are all your people.
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Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
10 Your holy cities have become a desert, Tziyon a desert, Yerushalayim a ruin.
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Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy, beautiful house, where our ancestors used to praise you, has been burned to the ground; all we cherished has been ruined.
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Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12 ADONAI, after all this, will you still hold back? Will you still stay silent and punish us past endurance?
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Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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