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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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) We wish you would tear open heaven and come down, so the mountains would shake at your presence!
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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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!
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 did tremendous things that we were not expecting, we wished that you would come down, so that the mountains would shake at your presence!
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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No one has ever heard, no ear perceived, no eye seen, any God but you. You work for him who waits for you.
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 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.
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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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.
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 or bestirs himself to take hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us and caused our misdeeds to destroy us.
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, ADONAI, you are our father; we are the clay, you are our potter; and we are all the work of your hands.
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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Do not be so very angry, ADONAI! Don't remember crime forever. Look, please, we are all your people.
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 desert, Tziyon a desert, Yerushalayim a ruin.
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, beautiful house, where our ancestors used to praise you, has been burned to the ground; all we cherished has been ruined.
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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ADONAI, after all this, will you still hold back? Will you still stay silent and punish us past endurance?
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