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Isaiah 64

12 aligned verses; 12 with wording or punctuation differences .

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1
If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
Didst Thou not rend the heavens ? Thou didst come down, From thy presence did mountains flow ,
2
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!
( As fire kindleth stubble -- Fire causeth water to boil, ) To make known Thy name to Thine adversaries , From Thy presence do nations tremble .
3
When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.
In Thy doing fearful things -- we expect not , Thou didst come down, From Thy presence did mountains flow .
4
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.
Even from antiquity `men' have not heard, They have not given ear, Eye hath not seen a God save Thee , He doth work for those waiting for Him.
5
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?
Thou hast met with the rejoicer And the doer of righteousness , In Thy ways they remember Thee , Lo, Thou hast been wroth when we sin, By them `is' continuance, and we are saved .
6
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 .
And we are as unclean -- all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf -- all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.
7
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 .
And there is none calling in Thy name , Stirring up himself to lay hold on Thee, For Thou hast hid Thy face from us , And thou meltest us away by our iniquities .
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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.
And now, O Jehovah , thou `art' our Father , We ` are ' the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of us .
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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!
Be not wroth , O Jehovah , very sore, Nor for ever remember iniquity, Lo, look attentively , we beseech Thee, Thy people ` are ' we all .
10
Your holy cities have become a wilderness . Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
Thy holy cities have been a wilderness , Zion a wilderness hath been, Jerusalem a desolation.
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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 .
Our holy and our beautiful house , Where praise Thee did our fathers, Hath become burnt with fire, And all our desirable things have become a waste .
12
After all this, O LORD , will You restrain Yourself ? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
For these dost Thou refrain Thyself , Jehovah ? Thou art silent , and dost afflict us very sore!'

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