1604 Isaiah 64
As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused
him to rest ; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious
name.Prayer for Mercy and Help¶ Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy
holiness and of thy glory : where is thy zeal and thy strength, the
sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they
restrained?
Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us,
and Israel acknowledge us not : thou, O Lord, art our Father, our
Redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting.
O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and
hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake,
the tribes of thine inheritance.
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while : our
adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
We are thine : thou never barest rule over them ; they were not called
by thy name.64Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come
down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
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!
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou
camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor
perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, besides
thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.1415161718191234