Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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1 O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.
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O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence—
2 They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the nations might tremble at thy presence.
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as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at your presence!
3 When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.
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When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.
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From ages past no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who works for those who wait for him.
5 Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved.
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You meet those who gladly do right, those who remember you in your ways. But you were angry, and we sinned; because you hid yourself we transgressed.
6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen 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 filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.
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There is no one who calls on your name, or attempts to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
8 And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.
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Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
9 Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people.
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Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord, and do not remember iniquity forever. Now consider, we are all your people.
10 The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a desert, Jerusalem is desolate.
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Your holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 The house of our holiness, and of our glory, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely things are turned into ruins.
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Our holy and beautiful house, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
12 Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon these things, wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us vehemently?
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After all this, will you restrain yourself, O Lord? Will you keep silent, and punish us so severely?
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