{"book":"Isaiah","slug":"isaiah","ch":64,"genre":"poetry","sub":"Isaiah","prev":"isaiah/63","next":"isaiah/65","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"If only You would rend the heavens and come down,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"so that mountains would quake at Your presence,"}],"h":"A Prayer for God’s Power","style":"indent1stline"},{"v":2,"t":"as fire kindles the brushwood [and] causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"as fire kindles the brushwood"},{"style":"indent2","t":"[and] causes the water to boil,"},{"style":"indent1","t":"to make Your name known to Your enemies,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":3,"t":"When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"When You did awesome works that we did not expect,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":4,"t":"From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.","f":["Cited in 1 Corinthians 2:9"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"From ancient times no one has heard,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"no ear has perceived,"},{"style":"indent1","t":"no eye has seen any God besides You,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":5,"t":"You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"You welcome those who gladly do right,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"who remember Your ways."},{"style":"indent1","t":"Surely You were angry, for we sinned."},{"style":"indent2","t":"How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":6,"t":"Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.","f":["Or like a stained menstrual garment"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Each of us has become like something unclean,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;"},{"style":"indent1","t":"we all wither like a leaf,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and our iniquities carry us away like the wind."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":7,"t":"No one calls on Your name [or] strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.","f":["LXX, Syriac, and Targum Yonaton; MT have made us melt in the hand"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"No one calls on Your name"},{"style":"indent2","t":"[or] strives to take hold of You."},{"style":"indent1","t":"For You have hidden Your face from us"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":8,"t":"But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"But now, O LORD, You are our Father;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"we are the clay, and You are the potter;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"we are all the work of Your hand."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":9,"t":"Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"do not remember our iniquity forever."},{"style":"indent1","t":"Oh, look upon us, we pray;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"we are all Your people!"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":10,"t":"Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland [and] Jerusalem a desolation.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Your holy cities have become a wilderness."},{"style":"indent2","t":"Zion has become a wasteland [and] Jerusalem a desolation."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":11,"t":"Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Our holy and beautiful temple,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"where our fathers praised You,"},{"style":"indent1","t":"has been burned with fire,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and all that was dear to us lies in ruins."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":12,"t":"After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"After all this, O LORD,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"will You restrain Yourself?"},{"style":"indent1","t":"Will You keep silent"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and afflict us beyond measure?"}],"style":"indent1"}]}