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Oh, that You would rend the heavens and acome down, That the mountains might bquake at Your presence--
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As fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil-- To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the anations may tremble at Your presence!
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When You did aawesome things which we did not expect, You came down, the mountains quaked at Your presence.
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For from days of old athey have not heard or perceived by ear, Nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who acts in behalf of the one who bwaits for Him.
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You ameet him who rejoices in bdoing righteousness, Who cremembers You in Your ways. Behold, dYou were angry, for we sinned, We continued in them a long time; And shall we be saved?
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For all of us have become like one who is aunclean, And all our brighteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us cwither like a leaf, And our diniquities, like the wind, take us away.
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There is ano one who calls on Your name, Who arouses himself to take hold of You; For You have bhidden Your face from us And have delivered us into the power of our iniquities.
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But now, O Lord, aYou are our Father, We are the bclay, and You our potter; And all of us are the cwork of Your hand.
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Do not be aangry beyond measure, O Lord, bNor remember iniquity forever; Behold, look now, all of us are cYour people.
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Your aholy cities have become a bwilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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Our holy and beautiful ahouse, Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And ball our precious things have become a ruin.
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Will You arestrain Yourself at these things, O Lord? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?