Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
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1 Oh that thou would rend the heavens, that thou would come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
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Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!
2 as <em>when</em> the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, <em>that</em> the Gentiles may tremble at thy 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 <em>As</em> thou didst come down when thou didst terrible things <em>which</em> we did not look for, <em>that</em> the mountains flowed down at thy 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 Nor have <em>men</em> heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God beside thee, that thou might do <em>it again</em> for the one who waits in 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 Thou didst come out to meet him that with rejoicing had worked righteous ness. In thy ways they remembered thee. Behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: thy ways are eternal, and <em>we</em> shall be 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 But we were all as an unclean <em>thing</em>, and all our righteousnesses as filthy rags; and we all fell as the leaves <em>of a tree</em>; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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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 <em>there is</em> none that calls upon thy name, that wakes himself up to take hold <em>of thee</em>; therefore, thou hast hid thy face from us and hast allowed us to wither in the power of our iniquities.
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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 But now, O LORD, thou <em>art</em> our father; we <em>are</em> the clay, and thou our potter; such that we all <em>are</em> the work of thy hands.
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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 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever; behold, see, we beseech thee, we <em>are</em> all thy 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 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is 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 house of our Sanctuary and of our glory, where our fathers praised thee, was burned up with fire; and all our precious things were destroyed.
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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 Wilt thou refrain thyself regarding these <em>things</em>, O LORD? Wilt thou hold thy peace and afflict us very sore?
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After all this, LORD, will you hold yourself back? Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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