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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/63.htm" title="Isaiah 63">◄</a> Isaiah 64 <a href="../isaiah/65.htm" title="Isaiah 65">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>O that you would tear open the heavens and come down,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so that the mountains would quake at your presence—</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span><span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22774a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> as when fire kindles brushwood</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the fire causes water to boil—</span></span><br /><span class="text">to make your name known to your adversaries,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so that the nations might tremble at your presence!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>From ages past no one has heard,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">no ear has perceived,</span></span><br /><span class="text">no eye has seen any God besides you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who works for those who wait for him.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>You meet those who gladly do right,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">those who remember you in your ways.</span></span><br /><span class="text">But you were angry, and we sinned;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">because you hid yourself we transgressed.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22777b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>We have all become like one who is unclean,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth.</span></span><br /><span class="text">We all fade like a leaf,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>There is no one who calls on your name,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or attempts to take hold of you;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for you have hidden your face from us,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and have delivered<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22779c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> us into the hand of our iniquity.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Yet, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, you are our Father;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">we are the clay, and you are our potter;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">we are all the work of your hand.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Do not be exceedingly angry, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and do not remember iniquity forever.</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Now consider, we are all your people.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Your holy cities have become a wilderness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Zion has become a wilderness,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Jerusalem a desolation.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Our holy and beautiful house,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">where our ancestors praised you,</span></span><br /><span class="text">has been burned by fire,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and all our pleasant places have become ruins.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>After all this, will you restrain yourself, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Will you keep silent, and punish us so severely?</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 64:2">Isaiah 64:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Ch 64.1 in Heb</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 64:5">Isaiah 64:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 64:7">Isaiah 64:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Old Latin Tg: Heb <i>melted</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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