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1Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, 2that the mountains might quake at your presence--
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a as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil-- 3to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
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4When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
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5From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, 6no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.
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You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?b
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7We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. 8We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
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9There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt inc the hand of our iniquities.
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10But now, O LORD, you are our Father; 11we are the clay, and you are our potter; 12we are all the work of your hand.
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13Be not so terribly angry, O LORD, 14and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people.
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15Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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(English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)