New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
New International Version NIV
1 O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence—
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Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!
2 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!
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As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!
3 When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
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For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.
4 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.
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Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
5 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.
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You come to the help of those who gladly do right, who remember your ways. But when we continued to sin against them, you were angry. How then can we be saved?
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