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📚✭✭Oh,that you would rend the heavens!
That you would come down!
That the mountains might tremble✭
at your presence,
2 📚As fire makes the brushwood burn,
as fire causes water to boil,
to make your name✭ known
to your adversaries,
that the nations may tremble
at your presence!
3 📚When you did awesome✭ things
for which we did not look,
you came down,
the mountains trembled
at your presence.
4 📚✭For since the beginning of the world
people have not heard
or perceived with the ear,
nor has the eye seen a God besides you
who acts on behalf of the one
who waits for him.
5 📚You meet him who rejoices
and works righteousness✭,
those who remember you
in your ways.
See, you have been angry,
for we have sinned✭.
We have long continued
in them.
And we need to be saved.
6 📚But we are all like an unclean thing, ✭
and all our righteous deeds
are like filthy rags,
and we all fade like a leaf✭,
and our iniquities, like the wind,
have taken us away✭.
7 📚✭And there is no one
who calls on your name,
who stirs himself up to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have consumed us✭ because
of our iniquities.
8 📚✭But now, O LORD,
you are our father✭;
we are the clay,
and you are our potter✭,
and we all are the work of your hands✭.
9 📚✭Do not be very angry✭,
O LORD, or remember iniquity✭ forever.
Look and see, we beg you,
we are all your people✭.
10 📚✭Your holy cities✭ are a wilderness,
Zion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 📚✭Our holy and our beautiful house,
where our fathers praised you,
is burned up with fire,
and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12 📚Will you restrain yourself
for these things, O LORD?
Will you keep silent✭,
and afflict us very severely✭?