Isaiah

The book of the prophet Isaiah, chapter 64, New English Translation and King James Version

Chapter 64 New English Translation

   1 (19b) If only you would tear apart the sky and come down! The mountains would tremble before you!
   2 (1) As when fire ignites dry wood, or fire makes water boil, let your adversaries know who you are, and may the nations shake at your presence!
   3 When you performed awesome deeds that took us by surprise, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.
   4 Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who intervenes for those who wait for him.
   5 You assist those who delight in doing what is right, who observe your commandments. Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved?
   6 We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.
   7 No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.
   8 Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
   9 LORD, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!
   10 Your chosen cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.
   11 Our holy temple, our pride and joy, the place where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire; all our prized possessions have been destroyed.
   12 In light of all this, how can you still hold back, LORD? How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?

King James Version

   1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
   2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
   3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
   4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
   5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
   6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
   7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
   8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
   9 ¶ Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
   10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
   11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
   12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?