23:064:002 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire
causeth the waters
to
boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries,
that the
nations
may tremble at thy presence!
23:064:003 When thou didst terrible things which we
looked not for, thou
camest
down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
23:064:004 For since the beginning of the world men
have not heard, nor
perceived
by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside
thee,
what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
23:064:005 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh
righteousness,
those
that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art
wroth;
for
we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we
shall be
saved.
23:064:006 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.
23:064:007 And there is none that calleth upon thy
name, that stirreth up
himself
to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face
from
us,
and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
23:064:008 But now, O lord, thou art our father;
we are the clay, and
thou
our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
23:064:009 Be not wroth very sore, O lord, neither
remember iniquity for
ever:
behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
23:064:010 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion
is a wilderness,
Jerusalem
a desolation.
23:064:011 Our holy and our beautiful house, where
our fathers praised
thee,
is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things
are
laid
waste.
23:064:012 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things,
O lord? wilt thou
hold
thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
23:065:001 I am sought of them that asked not for
me; I am found of them
that
sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto
a
nation
that was not called by my name.
23:065:002 I have spread out my hands all the day
unto a rebellious
people,
which walketh in a way that was not good, after their
own
thoughts;
23:065:003 A people that provoketh me to anger continually
to my face;
that
sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars
of
brick;
23:065:004 Which remain among the graves, and lodge
in the monuments,
which
eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things
is in
their
vessels;
23:065:005 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near
to me; for I am
holier
than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire
that
burneth
all the day.


