SCRIPTURE
Isaiah 64:1-9
1
O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains
would quake at your presence-- 2 as when fire kindles brushwood and
the fire causes water to boil-- to make your name known to your adversaries, so
that the nations might tremble at your presence! 3 When you did
awesome deeds that we did not expect, you came down, the mountains quaked at
your presence. 4 From ages past no one has heard, no ear has
perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who works for those who wait for
him. 5 You meet those who gladly do right, those who remember you in
your ways. But you were angry, and we sinned; because you hid yourself we
transgressed. 6 We have all become like one who is unclean, and all
our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our
iniquities, like the wind, take us away. 7 There is no one who calls
on your name, or attempts to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face
from us, and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity. 8 Yet,
O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all
the work of your hand. 9 Do not be exceedingly angry, O LORD, and do
not remember iniquity forever. Now consider, we are all your people.