来自{publisher｝1Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence— (士5:5; 撒下22:10; 诗18:9; 诗144:5; 弥1:4)2[1] as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence! (书2:9)3When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. (出14:13; 出15:11)4From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him. (诗31:19; 林前2:9)5You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?[2]6We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. (诗90:5; 赛59:12)7There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in[3] the hand of our iniquities. (赛43:22; 何7:7)8But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. (赛29:23; 赛45:9; 赛45:11; 赛63:16; 羅9:20)9Be not so terribly angry, O Lord, and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people. (诗74:1; 诗79:8; 赛57:16)10Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. (尼1:3; 尼2:3)11Our holy and beautiful[4] house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins. (王下25:9; 代下36:19; 诗74:7; 该1:9; 该2:3)12Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord? Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly? (赛42:14; 亚1:12)