# Isaiah 64 (New King James Version)
A Prayer for Help

##### Chapter 64
###### 1 Oh, that You would rend the heavens!  
That You would come down!  
That the mountains might shake at Your presence--  

###### 2 As fire burns brushwood,  
As fire causes water to boil--  
To make Your name known to Your adversaries,  
_That_ the nations may tremble at Your presence!  

###### 3 When You did awesome things _for which_ we did not look,  
You came down,  
The mountains shook at Your presence.  

###### 4 For since the beginning of the world  
_Men_ have not heard nor perceived by the ear,  
Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,  
Who acts for the one who waits for Him.  

###### 5 You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,  
_Who_ remembers You in Your ways.  
You are indeed angry, for we have sinned--  
In these ways we continue;  
And we need to be saved.

###### 6 But we are all like an unclean _thing,_  
And all our righteousnesses _are_ like filthy rags;  
We all fade as a leaf,  
And our iniquities, like the wind,  
Have taken us away.  

###### 7 And _there is_ no one who calls on Your name,  
Who stirs himself up to take hold of You;  
For You have hidden Your face from us,  
And have consumed us because of our iniquities.

###### 8 But now, O Lord,  
You _are_ our Father;  
We _are_ the clay, and You our potter;  
And all we _are_ the work of Your hand.  

###### 9 Do not be furious, O Lord,  
Nor remember iniquity forever;  
Indeed, please look--we all _are_ Your people!  

###### 10 Your holy cities are a wilderness,  
Zion is a wilderness,  
Jerusalem a desolation.  

###### 11 Our holy and beautiful temple,  
Where our fathers praised You,  
Is burned up with fire;  
And all our pleasant things are laid waste.  

###### 12 Will You restrain Yourself because of these _things,_ O Lord?  
Will You hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?