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1 Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down! How the mountains would quake in your presence!
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If only you would tear open the heavens and come down! Mountains would quake before you
2 As fire causes wood to burn and water to boil, your coming would make the nations tremble. Then your enemies would learn the reason for your fame!
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like fire igniting brushwood or making water boil. If you would make your name known to your enemies, the nations would tremble in your presence.
3 When you came down long ago, you did awesome deeds beyond our highest expectations. And oh, how the mountains quaked!
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When you accomplished wonders beyond all our expectations; when you came down, mountains quaked before you.
4 For since the world began, no ear has heard and no eye has seen a God like you, who works for those who wait for him!
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From ancient times, no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any god but you who acts on behalf of those who wait for him!
5 You welcome those who gladly do good, who follow godly ways. But you have been very angry with us, for we are not godly. We are constant sinners; how can people like us be saved?
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You look after those who gladly do right; they will praise you for your ways. But you were angry when we sinned; you hid yourself when we did wrong.
6 We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.
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We have all become like the unclean; all our righteous deeds are like a menstrual rag. All of us wither like a leaf; our sins, like the wind, carry us away.
7 Yet no one calls on your name or pleads with you for mercy. Therefore, you have turned away from us and turned us over to our sins.
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No one calls on your name; no one bothers to hold on to you, for you have hidden yourself from us, and have handed us over to our sin.
8 And yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We all are formed by your hand.
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But now, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter. All of us are the work of your hand.
9 Don’t be so angry with us, LORD . Please don’t remember our sins forever. Look at us, we pray, and see that we are all your people.
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Don't rage so fiercely, LORD; don't hold our sins against us forever, but gaze now on your people, all of us:
10 Your holy cities are destroyed. Zion is a wilderness; yes, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.
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Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a wasteland.
11 The holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned down, and all the things of beauty are destroyed.
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Our holy, glorious house, where our ancestors praised you, has gone up in flames; all that we treasured has become a ruin.
12 After all this, LORD, must you still refuse to help us? Will you continue to be silent and punish us?
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After all this, will you hold back, LORD? Will you keep silent and torment us so terribly?
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