1 If only You would rend the heavens [and] come down; at Your presence the mountains would shake, VP
2 like the kindling of brushwood [by] the fire—the fire boils the waters—to make known Your name to Your adversaries, [that] before Your face the nations will tremble, VP
3 at Your doing fearsome [things] we could not have expected! You come down, before Your face the mountains shake. VP
4 And from age past they have not heard, and they have not given ear; no eye has seen any God besides You, [who] acts for the one waiting for Him. VP
5 You meet the one rejoicing and doing righteousness; in Your ways they remember You. Behold, You were angry, and we had sinned; in them is continuance, then will we be saved? VP
6 And all of us have become like an unclean one, all our righteous acts [are] as a filthy rag; and all of us wither like the leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind. VP
7 And no one is calling on Your name, stirring himself up to take hold of You; for You have hidden Your face from us, and delivered us into the hand of our iniquities. VP
8 And now, O YHWH You [are] our Father; we [are] the clay, and You the One forming us, and we [are] all the work of Your hand. VP
9 Do not be angry, O YHWH, beyond measure, and do not remember [our] iniquity forever! Behold, please, look; we [are] all Your people! VP
10 Your holy Cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. VP
11 And our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire; and all our desirable things are laid waste. VP
12 At these will You restrain Yourself, O YHWH? Will You keep silent, and afflict us beyond measure? VP