64Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down! How the mountains would quake in your presence!H3863H7167H8064H3381H2022H2151H64402As fire causes wood to burn and water to boil, your coming would make the nations tremble. Then your enemies would learn the reason for your fame!H2003H784H6919H784H4325H1158H8034H3045H6862H1471H7264H64403When you came down long ago, you did awesome deeds beyond our highest expectations. And oh, how the mountains quaked!H6213H3372H6960H3381H2022H2151H64404For since the world began, no ear has heard, and no eye has seen a God like you, who works for those who wait for him!H5769H8085H238H5869H7200H430H2108H6213H24425You welcome those who gladly do good, who follow godly ways. But you have been very angry with us, for we are not godly. We are constant sinners; how can people like us be saved?H6293H7797H6213H6664H2142H1870H7107H2398H5769H34676We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.H2931H6666H5708H899H5034H1101H5929H5771H7307H53757Yet no one calls on your name or pleads with you for mercy. Therefore, you have turned away from us and turned us over to our sins.H7121H8034H5782H2388H5641H6440H4127H3027H57718And yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We all are formed by your hand.H3068H1H2563H3335H4639H30279Don’t be so angry with us, Lord. Please don’t remember our sins forever. Look at us, we pray, and see that we are all your people.H7107H3966H3068H2142H5771H5703H5027H597110Your holy cities are destroyed. Zion is a wilderness; yes, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.H6944H5892H4057H6726H4057H3389H807711The holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned down, and all the things of beauty are destroyed.H6944H8597H1004H1H1984H8316H784H4261H272312After all this, Lord, must you still refuse to help us? Will you continue to be silent and punish us?H662H3068H2814H6031H3966
Dublin, OH
Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down! How the mountains would quake in your presence!H3863
