Prayer for Mercy and Help
Oh, that You would rend the heavens and acome down,
That the mountains might bquake at Your presence—
2 As 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!
3 When You did aawesome things which we did not expect,
You came down, the mountains quaked at Your presence.
4 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.
5 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?
6 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.
7 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 delivered us into the power of our iniquities.
8 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.
9 Do not be aangry beyond measure, O Lord,
bNor remember iniquity forever;
Behold, look now, all of us are cYour people.
10 Your aholy cities have become a bwilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and beautiful ahouse,
Where our fathers praised You,
Has been burned by fire;
And ball our precious things have become a ruin.
12 Will You arestrain Yourself at these things, O Lord?
Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
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