1   Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down at your presence.
2   As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
3   When  you  did  terrible  things  which  we looked not for, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence.
4   For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, besides you, what he has prepared for him that waits for him.
5   You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold, you are angry; for we have sinned: in those ways 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 calls upon your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.
8   But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
9   Be not exceedingly angry, O LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: behold, see, we beseech you, we are all your people.
10   Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11   Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12   Will you restrain yourself for these things, O LORD? will you hold your peace, and afflict us very severely?