Isaiah 64

NEW JERUSALEM	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 as fire sets brushwood alight, as fire makes water boil -- to make your name known to your foes; thenations would tremble at your presence,	1 As when brushwood is set ablaze, or fire makes the water boil! Thus your name would be made known to your enemies and the nations would tremble before you,
2 at the unexpected miracles you would do. (Oh, that you would come down, in your presence themountains would quake!)	2 While you wrought awesome deeds we could not hope for,
3 Never has anyone heard, no ear has heard, no eye has seen any god but you act like this for the sakeof those who trust him.	3 such as they had not heard of from of old. No ear has ever heard, no eye ever seen, any God but you doing such deeds for those who wait for him.
4 You come to meet those who are happy to act uprightly; keeping your ways reminds them of you. Yes,you have been angry and we have been sinners; now we persist in your ways and we shal be saved.	4 Would that you might meet us doing right, that we were mindful of you in our ways! Behold, you are angry, and we are sinful;
5 We have al been like unclean things and our upright deeds like filthy rags. We wither, al of us, likeleaves, and al our misdeeds carry us off like the wind.	5 all of us have become like unclean men, all our good deeds are like polluted rags; We have all withered like leaves, and our guilt carries us away like the wind.
6 There is no one to invoke your name, to rouse himself to hold fast to you, for you have hidden your facefrom us and given us up to the power of our misdeeds.	6 There is none who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to cling to you; For you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us up to our guilt.
7 And yet, Yahweh, you are our Father; we the clay and you our potter, al of us are the work of yourhands.	7 Yet, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay and you the potter: we are all the work of your hands.
8 Yahweh, do not let your anger go too far and do not remember guilt for ever. Look, please, we are alyour people;	8 Be not so very angry, LORD, keep not our guilt forever in mind; look upon us, who are all your people.
9 your holy cities have become a desert, Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem a wasteland.	9 Your holy cities have become a desert, Zion is a desert, Jerusalem a waste.
10 Our holy and glorious Temple, in which our ancestors used to praise you, has been burnt to theground; al our delight lies in ruins.	10 Our holy and glorious temple in which our fathers praised you Has been burned with fire; all that was dear to us is laid waste.
11 Yahweh, can you restrain yourself at al this? Wil you stay silent and afflict us beyond endurance?	11 Can you hold back, O LORD, after all this? Can you remain silent, and afflict us so severely?