64:1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
64:2 As [when] the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, [that] the nations may tremble at thy presence!
64:3 When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
64:4 For since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O Elohim (אלהים), beside thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, [those that] remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
64:6 But we are all as an tamei [thing], and kol tzidkoteinu [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
64:7 And [there is] none that calleth upon Thy Name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
64:8 But now, O YHWH (יהוה), thou [art] Avenu; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.
64:9 Be not wroth very sore, O YHWH (יהוה), neither remember iniquity forever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people.
64:10 Thy set apart cities are a midbar, Tzyon is a midbar, Yerushalayim a desolation.
64:11 Our set apart and our beautiful house, where Avenus praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
64:12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these [things], O YHWH (יהוה)? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?