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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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/64.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,</span><br /><span class="indent">that the mountains might quake at your presence—</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group"><span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ch 64:1 in Hebrew">a</a></sup></span> as when fire kindles brushwood</span><br /><span class="indent">and the fire causes water to boil—</span><br /><span class="ln-group">to make your name known to your adversaries,</span><br /><span class="indent">and that the nations might tremble at your presence!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When you did awesome things that we did not look for,</span><br /><span class="indent">you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">From of old no one has heard</span><br /><span class="indent">or perceived by the ear,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">no eye has seen a God besides you,</span><br /><span class="indent">who acts for those who wait for him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,</span><br /><span class="indent">those who remember you in your ways.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;</span><br /><span class="indent">in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved">b</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">We have all become like one who is unclean,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">We all fade like a leaf,</span><br /><span class="indent">and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">There is no one who calls upon your name,</span><br /><span class="indent">who rouses himself to take hold of you;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for you have hidden your face from us,</span><br /><span class="indent">and have made us melt in<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum have delivered us into">c</a></sup></span> the hand of our iniquities.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But now, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, you are our Father;</span><br /><span class="indent">we are the clay, and you are our potter;</span><br /><span class="indent">we are all the work of your hand.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Be not so terribly angry, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">and remember not iniquity forever.</span><br /><span class="indent">Behold, please look, we are all your people.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your holy cities have become a wilderness;</span><br /><span class="indent">Zion has become a wilderness,</span><br /><span class="indent">Jerusalem a desolation.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Our holy and beautiful<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or holy and glorious">d</a></sup></span> house,</span><br /><span class="indent">where our fathers praised you,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">has been burned by fire,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all our pleasant places have become ruins.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Will you restrain yourself at these things, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>?</span><br /><span class="indent">Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Ch 64:1 in Hebrew<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">in</span> your ways is continuance, that we might be saved</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum <i><span class="catch-word">have</span> delivered us into</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">holy and</span> glorious</i><br /></span></div></div><div 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