64
1 Rip the heavens apart!
Come down, Lord;
make the mountains tremble.
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64
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1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
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2 Be a spark that starts a fire
causing water to boil. m 64.2 Be ... boil: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
Then your enemies will know
who you are;
all nations will tremble
because you are nearby.
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2 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! the melting...: Heb. the fire of meltings
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3 Your fearsome deeds
have completely amazed us;
even the mountains shake
when you come down.
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3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
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4 You are the only God 64.4 1Co 2.9.
ever seen or heard of
who works miracles
for his followers.
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4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. seen...: or, seen a God beside thee, which doeth so for him, etc
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5 You help all who gladly obey
and do what you want,
but sin makes you angry.
Only by your help
can we ever be saved. n 64.5 saved: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 5.
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5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
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6 We are unfit to worship you;
each of our good deeds
is merely a filthy rag.
We dry up like leaves;
our sins are storm winds
sweeping us away.
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6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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7 No one worships in your name
or remains faithful.
You have turned your back on us
and let our sins melt us away. o 64.7 and let ... away: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
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7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. consumed: Heb. melted because: Heb. by the hand
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8 You, Lord, are our Father.
We are nothing but clay,
but you are the potter
who molded us.
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8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
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9 Don't be so furious
or keep our sins
in your thoughts forever!
Remember that all of us
are your people.
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9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
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10 Every one of your towns
has turned into a desert,
especially Jerusalem.
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10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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11 Zion's glorious and holy temple
where our ancestors praised you
has been destroyed by fire.
Our beautiful buildings
are now a pile of ruins.
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11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
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12 When you see these things,
how can you just sit there
and make us suffer more?
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12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
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