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# Chapter 64
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1 Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down!
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How the mountains would quake in your presence!
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2 As fire causes wood to burn
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and water to boil,
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your coming would make the nations tremble.
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Then your enemies would learn the reason for your fame!
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3 When you came down long ago,
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you did awesome deeds beyond our highest expectations.
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And oh, how the mountains quaked!
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4 For since the world began,
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no ear has heard
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and no eye has seen a God like you,
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who works for those who wait for him!
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5 You welcome those who gladly do good,
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who follow godly ways.
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But you have been very angry with us,
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for we are not godly.
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We are constant sinners;
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how can people like us be saved?
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6 We are all infected and impure with sin.
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When we display our righteous deeds,
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they are nothing but filthy rags.
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Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall,
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and our sins sweep us away like the wind.
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7 Yet no one calls on your name
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or pleads with you for mercy.
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Therefore, you have turned away from us
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and turned us over to our sins.
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8 And yet, O Lord, you are our Father.
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We are the clay, and you are the potter.
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We all are formed by your hand.
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9 Don’t be so angry with us, Lord.
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Please don’t remember our sins forever.
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Look at us, we pray,
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and see that we are all your people.
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10 Your holy cities are destroyed.
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Zion is a wilderness;
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yes, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.
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11 The holy and beautiful Temple
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where our ancestors praised you
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has been burned down,
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and all the things of beauty are destroyed.
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12 After all this, Lord, must you still refuse to help us?
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Will you continue to be silent and punish us? |