Isaiah 64 — T4T

64Verse 1“Yahweh, I wish that you would tear open the sky and come down,and cause the mountains to shake in your presence.^{Verse 2}Be like a fire that burns twigsand causes water to boil!Come down in order that your enemies will know who you are,and the people of other nations will tremble in your presence.^{Verse 3}You have done awesome things which we were not expecting you to do;the mountains shook when you came down at Horeb Mountain.^{Verse 4}Since ◄long ago/the world began►, no one [SYN] has ever seen or heard about a God like you;you help those who ◄depend on/trust in► you.^{Verse 5}You help those who joyfully do what is right,those who conduct their lives as you want them to.But we did not do that; we continued to sin,and so you became angry with us.We have been sinning for a long time,so only if we continually do what you want us to do will we be saved.^{Verse 6}We have all become people who are not fit to worship you;all of the good things that we have done are only like [SIM] filthy/blood-stained rags.Because of our sins, we are like [SIM] leaves that dry upand are blown away by the wind.^{Verse 7}None of our people worships you,and no one is completely dedicated to [IDM] you.You have turned away from us.It is as though you have caused us to be forced to continue our sinful behavior.^{Verse 8}Yahweh, you are our father.We are like [MET] clay,
and you created us, like [MET] a potter creates pottery.^{Verse 9}Yahweh, do not continue to be angry with us;do not keep thinking about our sins forever.Do not forget that we are all your people.
^{Verse 10}All of your towns in Judah have become like [MET] deserts;even Jerusalem has been destroyed.^{Verse 11}Your glorious temple on Zion Hill, where our ancestors worshiped you,has been destroyed by fire.
And all our other beautiful things have been ruined.^{Verse 12}Yahweh, you see all those things, so we worry that you will refrain from helping us,and that you will cause us to suffer much more.