Old Testament · Prophets

Isaiah chapter 64

If only you would the sky and come down — the mountains would at your presence!Like , like fire making water boil — come make your known to your enemies, so the shake at your presence.When you did we never expected, you came down and the mountains trembled at your presence.Since the beginning of time no one has heard, no ear has picked up, no eye has seen any god besides you who those who .You those who joyfully do what is right, those who remember your ways. But look — you were angry, and we kept . We have been in this state so long — can we even be ?All of us have become like something , and all our are like . We all shrivel up like a leaf, and our carry us away like the wind.No one , no one rouses themselves to hold on to you — because you have from us and to the power of our own wrongs.But now, Yahweh, you are our . We are the — you are the . We are all the work of your hands.Don’t be , Yahweh. Don’t our wrongs forever. Please — look at us — we are all your people. have become a wasteland. has become a wasteland. Jerusalem is a ., where our ancestors you, has been burned to the ground, and everything we lies in ruins.After all this, will you still , Yahweh? Will you stay and ?