A Prayer for God’s Power 1 CPDV I wish that you would rend the heavens, and then descend! The mountains would flow away before your face. BSB BSB: If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
2 CPDV 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. BSB BSB: as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!
3 CPDV When you will perform miracles, we will not be able to withstand them. You descended, and the mountains flowed away before your presence. BSB BSB: When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.
4 CPDV 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. BSB BSB: From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
5 CPDV 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. BSB BSB: You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
6 CPDV 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. BSB BSB: Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
7 CPDV 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. BSB BSB: No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
8 CPDV 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. BSB BSB: But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
9 CPDV Do not be so angry, O Lord, and no longer call to mind our iniquity. Behold, consider that we are all your people. BSB BSB: Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
10 CPDV The city of your sanctuary has become a desert. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is desolate. BSB BSB: Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
11 CPDV 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. BSB BSB: Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
12 CPDV Should you restrain yourself, O Lord, concerning these things? Should you remain silent, and afflict us vehemently? BSB BSB: After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
Select verses for actions: Enter goes to them and Escape comes back.