New Living Translation NLT
Hebrew Names Version HNV
1 Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down! How the mountains would quake in your presence!
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Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake 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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as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at 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 did terrible things which we didn't look for, you came down, the mountains quaked 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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For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits 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 meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways: behold, you were angry, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we 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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For we are all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take 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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There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
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 our potter; and we all 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 be angry very sore, LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, 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 are become a wilderness, Tziyon is become a wilderness, Yerushalayim a desolation.
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 and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
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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Will you refrain yourself for these things, LORD? will you hold your shalom, and afflict us very sore?