من Crossway1Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence— (قض 5:5; 2صم 22:10; مز 18:9; مز 144:5; مي 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! (يش 2:9)3When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. (خر 14:13; خر 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. (مز 31:19; 1كو 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. (مز 90:5; إش 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. (إش 43:22; هو 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. (إش 29:23; إش 45:9; إش 45:11; إش 63:16; رو 9:20)9Be not so terribly angry, O Lord, and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people. (مز 74:1; مز 79:8; إش 57:16)10Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. (نح 1:3; نح 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. (2مل 25:9; 2أخ 36:19; مز 74:7; حج 1:9; حج 2:3)12Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord? Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly? (إش 42:14; زك 1:12)