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Isaiah 64

Prayer for Mercy and Help

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 1Oh, that You would rend the heavens and  acome down, That the mountains might  bquake at Your presence--

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 1As fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil-- To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the  anations may tremble at Your presence!

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When You did  aawesome things which we did not expect, You came down, the mountains quaked at Your presence.

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For from days of old  athey have not heard or perceived by ear, Nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who acts in behalf of the one who  bwaits for Him.

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You  ameet him who rejoices in  bdoing righteousness, Who  cremembers You in Your ways. Behold,  dYou were angry, for we sinned, We continued in them a long time; And shall we be saved?

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For all of us have become like one who is  aunclean, And all our  brighteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us  cwither like a leaf, And our  diniquities, like the wind, take us away.

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There is  ano one who calls on Your name, Who arouses himself to take hold of You; For You have  bhidden Your face from us And have  1delivered us into the power of our iniquities.

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But now, O LORD,  aYou are our Father, We are the  bclay, and You our potter; And all of us are the  cwork of Your hand.

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Do not be  aangry beyond measure, O LORD,  bNor remember iniquity forever; Behold, look now, all of us are  cYour people.

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Your  aholy cities have become a  bwilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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Our holy and beautiful  ahouse, Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And  ball our precious things have become a ruin.

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Will You  arestrain Yourself at these things, O LORD? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?



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