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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 Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/isaiah/64.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a>Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down!</p><p class="line2">How the mountains would quake in your presence!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a>As fire causes wood to burn</p><p class="line2">and water to boil,</p><p class="line1">your coming would make the nations tremble.</p><p class="line2">Then your enemies would learn the reason for your fame!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When you came down long ago,</p><p class="line2">you did awesome deeds beyond our highest expectations.</p><p class="line2">And oh, how the mountains quaked!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For since the world began,</p><p class="line2">no ear has heard</p><p class="line1">and no eye has seen a God like you,</p><p class="line2">who works for those who wait for him!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You welcome those who gladly do good,</p><p class="line2">who follow godly ways.</p><p class="line1">But you have been very angry with us,</p><p class="line2">for we are not godly.</p><p class="line1">We are constant sinners;</p><p class="line2">how can people like us be saved?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>We are all infected and impure with sin.</p><p class="line2">When we display our righteous deeds,</p><p class="line2">they are nothing but filthy rags.</p><p class="line1">Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall,</p><p class="line2">and our sins sweep us away like the wind.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Yet no one calls on your name</p><p class="line2">or pleads with you for mercy.</p><p class="line1">Therefore, you have turned away from us</p><p class="line2">and turned us over<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> to our sins.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And yet, O LORD, you are our Father.</p><p class="line2">We are the clay, and you are the potter.</p><p class="line2">We all are formed by your hand.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Don’t be so angry with us, LORD.</p><p class="line2">Please don’t remember our sins forever.</p><p class="line1">Look at us, we pray,</p><p class="line2">and see that we are all your people.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Your holy cities are destroyed.</p><p class="line2">Zion is a wilderness;</p><p class="line2">yes, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The holy and beautiful Temple</p><p class="line2">where our ancestors praised you</p><p class="line1">has been burned down,</p><p class="line2">and all the things of beauty are destroyed.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>After all this, LORD, must you still refuse to help us?</p><p class="line2">Will you continue to be silent and punish us?</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">64:1 </span><span class="ft">In the Hebrew text this verse is included in 63:19.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">64:2 </span><span class="ft">Verses 64:2-12 are numbered 64:1-11 in Hebrew text.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">64:7 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek, Syriac, and Aramaic versions; Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">melted us.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div 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