¹Oh that you would tear the skies open and come down, so the mountains would quake before you,

²As fire kindles brushwood, as fire makes water boil, to make your name known to your enemies, so that nations quake before you.

³When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down; before you the mountains quaked.

⁴And from forever they have not heard, they have not given ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for the one who waits for him.

⁵You have met the one who rejoices and the one who does righteousness; in your ways they remember you. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in them forever, and might we be saved?

⁶We have become like the unclean, all of us, and all our righteousness is like a garment of menstruation; we have withered like a leaf, all of us, and our guilt will carry us off like the wind.

⁷There is no one who calls on your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and melted us in the hand of our guilt.

⁸And now, Yahweh, you are our father; we are the clay, and you are the one who formed us, and we are all the work of your hand.

⁹Do not be angry, Yahweh, exceedingly, and do not remember guilt forever; behold, look, please: all of us are your people.

¹⁰Your holy cities have become wilderness, Zion has become wilderness, Jerusalem a wasteland.

¹¹Our holy house, our splendor, where our fathers praised you, has become a burning of fire, and all our pleasant things have become a ruin.

¹²Over these things will you restrain yourself, Yahweh? Will you hush and afflict us exceedingly?