Prophecy of Isaias 943
Chapter 64
O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and
wouldst come down: the mountains would melt
away at thy presence.
2 They would melt as at the burning of fire,
the waters would burn with fire, that thy name
might be made known to thy enemies: that the
nations might tremble at thy presence.
3 When thou shalt do wonderful things, we
shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and
at thy presence the mountains melted away.
4 From the beginning of the world they have
not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye
hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things
thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.
5 Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth
justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee:
behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in
them we have been always, and we shall be saved.
6 And we are all become as one unclean,
and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous
woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our
iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7 There is none that calleth upon thy name:
that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou
hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us
in the hand of our iniquity.
8 And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and
we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all
are the works of thy hands.
9 Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember
no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy
people.
10 The city of thy sanctuary is become a
desert, Sion is made a desert, Jerusalem is deso-
late.
11 The house of our holiness, and of our glory,
where our fathers praised thee, is burnt with fire,
and all our lovely things are turned into ruins.
12 Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon
these things, wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict
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They have sought me that before asked not for
me, they have found me that sought me not. I
said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did
not call upon my name.
2 I have spread forth my hands all the day to
an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that
is not good after their own thoughts.
3 A people that continually provoke me to
anger before my face, that immolate in gardens,
and sacrifice upon bricks.
4 That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the
temple of idols: that eat swine’s flesh, and pro-
fane broth is in their vessels.
5 That say: Depart from me, come not near
me, because thou art unclean: these shall be
smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day.
6 Behold it is written before me: I will not
be silent, but I will render and repay into their
bosom.
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your
fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacri-
ficed upon the mountains, and have reproached
me upon the hills; and I will measure back their
first work in their bosom.
8 Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found
in a cluster, and it be said: Destroy it not, be-
cause it is a blessing: so will I do for the sake of
my servants, that I may not destroy the whole.
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob,
and out of Juda a possessor of my mountains:
and my elect shall inherit it, and my servants
shall dwell there.
10 And the plains shall be turned to folds of