1 GLT Oh, if you had split open the heavens and come down! The mountains would have shaken at your presence, BSB BSB: If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
2 GLT as fire kindles the brushwood,{ or} fire boils water to make your name known by your adversaries, before your face nations tremble. 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 GLT When you did fearful things we had not hoped{ for}, you came down; before your face the mountains trembled. BSB BSB: When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.
4 GLT And from ancient times they have not heard; they have not given ear; no eye has seen a god besides you, who works for him who waits for him. 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 GLT You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness, who recalls your ways. Behold, you were angry for we had sinned; through them of old we would 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 GLT And all of us have become like an unclean one, and all our righteous deeds{ are} like a menstrual rag. And we have withered like leaves, all of us, and our iniquities, like the wind, carry us away. 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 GLT And there are none who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you. For you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away in the hand of our iniquities. 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 GLT And yet, Yahweh, our Father you{ are}. We{ are} the clay, and you{ are} our potter; and we all{ are} the work of your hand. 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 GLT Do not be angry beyond measure, Yahweh, and do not forever remember iniquity. Behold, look, please, all of us{ are} 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 GLT Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. BSB BSB: Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
11 GLT Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised you, has been burned{ in} fire, and all our beloved things are in 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 GLT At these, will you restrain yourself, Yahweh? Will you remain silent and humiliate us beyond measure? BSB BSB: After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
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