Isaiah 64

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW JERUSALEM
1 I wish that you would rend the heavens, and then descend! The mountains would flow away before your face.	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,
2 They would melt, as if thoroughly burned by fire. The waters would burn with fire, so that your name might be made known to your enemies, so that the nations would be stirred up before your face.	2 at the unexpected miracles you would do. (Oh, that you would come down, in your presence themountains would quake!)
3 When you will perform miracles, we will not be able to withstand them. You descended, and the mountains flowed away before your presence.	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.
4 From ages past, they have not heard it, and they have not perceived it with the ears. Apart from you, O God, the eye has not seen what you have prepared for those who await you.	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.
5 You have met with those who rejoice in doing justice. By your ways, they will remember you. Behold, you have been angry, for we have sinned. In this, we have continued, but we will be saved.	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.
6 And we have all become like the unclean. And all our justices are like a rag of menstruation. And we have all fallen away, like a leaf. And our iniquities have carried 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.
7 There is no one who calls upon your name, who rises up and holds fast to you. You have concealed your face from us, and you have crushed us with the hand of our own iniquity.	7 And yet, Yahweh, you are our Father; we the clay and you our potter, al of us are the work of yourhands.
8 And now, O Lord, you are our Father, yet truly, we are clay. And you are our Maker, and we are all the works 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;
9 Do not be so angry, O Lord, and no longer call to mind our iniquity. Behold, consider that we are all your people.	9 your holy cities have become a desert, Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem a wasteland.
10 The city of your sanctuary has become a desert. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is desolate.	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.
11 The house of our sanctification and of our glory, where our fathers praised you, has been completely consumed by fire, and all our admirable things have been turned into ruins.	11 Yahweh, can you restrain yourself at al this? Wil you stay silent and afflict us beyond endurance?
12 Should you restrain yourself, O Lord, concerning these things? Should you remain silent, and afflict us vehemently?