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1 Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence--
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O that thou wouldst rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence--
2 As fire burns brushwood, As fire causes water to boil-- To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the nations may tremble at Your presence!
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as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil--to make thy name known to thy adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at thy presence!
3 When You did awesome things for which we did not look, You came down, The mountains shook at Your presence.
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When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.
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From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides thee, who works for those who wait for him.
5 You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways. You are indeed angry, for we have sinned-- In these ways we continue; And we need to be saved.
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Thou meetest him that joyfully works righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou wast angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?
6 But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 And there is no one who calls on Your name, Who stirs himself up to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us, And have consumed us because of our iniquities.
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There is no one that calls upon thy name, that bestirs himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast delivered us into the hand of our iniquities.
8 But now, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.
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Yet, O LORD, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; we are all the work of thy hand.
9 Do not be furious, O Lord, Nor remember iniquity forever; Indeed, please look--we all are Your people!
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Be not exceedingly angry, O LORD, and remember not iniquity for ever. Behold, consider, we are all thy people.
10 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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Thy holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and beautiful temple, Where our fathers praised You, Is burned up with fire; And all our pleasant things are laid waste.
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Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
12 Will You restrain Yourself because of these things, O Lord? Will You hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?
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Wilt thou restrain thyself at these things, O LORD? Wilt thou keep silent, and afflict us sorely?