19WE HAVE BEEN FROM LONG AGO NOT YOU RULED OVER THEM NOT IT WAS CALLED NAME YOUR ON THEM 19We have become like those You never ruled like those not called by Your name.
1IF YOU TORE [THE] HEAVENS YOU CAME DOWN FROM BEFORE YOU MOUNTAINS THEY SHOOK A Prayer for God’s Power 1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
2AS KINDLES FIRE BRUSHWOOD<S> WATER IT BOILS FIRE TO MAKE KNOWN NAME YOUR TO OPPONENTS YOUR FROM BEFORE YOU NATIONS THEY WILL QUAKE 2as 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!
3WHEN DOING YOU AWESOME [DEEDS] [WHICH] NOT WE WERE LOOKING FOR YOU CAME DOWN FROM BEFORE YOU MOUNTAINS THEY SHOOK 3When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.
4AND FROM LONG AGO NOT PEOPLE HAVE HEARD NOT PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN EAR EYE NOT IT HAS SEEN A GOD BESIDES YOU [WHO] HE ACTS FOR [ONE WHO] WAITS FOR <THE> HIM 4From 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.*NoteCloseCited in 1 Corinthians 2:9
5YOU MEET <OBJ.> [ONE WHO] REJOICES AND [ONE WHO] DOES <OF> RIGHTEOUSNESS IN WAYS YOUR THEY REMEMBER YOU THERE! YOU YOU WERE ANGRY AND WE SINNED IN <THE> THEM LONG DURATION SO WE MAY BE SAVED? 5You 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?
6AND WE HAVE BECOME LIKE <THE> UNCLEAN [PERSON] ALL OF US AND [ARE] LIKE A GARMENT OF MENSTRUATION<S> ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS<ES> OUR AND WE HAVE WITHERED LIKE <THE> LEAFAGE ALL OF US AND INIQUITIES OUR LIKE THE WIND THEY CARRY OFF US 6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;*NoteCloseOr like a stained menstrual garment we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
7AND THERE NOT [IS ONE WHO] CALLS ON NAME YOUR [ONE WHO] ROUSES HIMSELF TO TAKE HOLD ON <THE> YOU FOR YOU HAVE HIDDEN FACE YOUR FROM US AND YOU HAVE MELTED US IN [THE] HAND OF INIQUITY OUR 7No 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*NoteCloseLXX, Syriac, and Targum Yonaton; MT have made us melt in the hand of our iniquity.
8AND NOW O YAHWEH [ARE] FATHER OUR YOU WE [ARE] THE CLAY AND YOU [ARE] [THE] [ONE WHO] FORMED US AND [ARE] [THE] WORK OF HAND YOUR ALL OF US 8But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
9MAY NOT YOU BE ANGRY O YAHWEH UP TO MUCHNESS AND MAY NOT FOR EVER YOU REMEMBER INIQUITY HERE! LOOK PLEASE [ARE] PEOPLE YOUR ALL OF US 9Do 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[THE] CITIES OF HOLINESS YOUR THEY HAVE BEEN A WILDERNESS ZION A WILDERNESS IT HAS BEEN JERUSALEM [IS] A DESOLATION 10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
11[THE] HOUSE OF HOLINESS OUR AND SPLENDOR OUR WHERE THEY PRAISED YOU ANCESTORS OUR IT HAS BECOME <INTO> A BURNING OF FIRE AND ALL PLEASANT THINGS OUR IT HAS BECOME <INTO> A RUIN 11Our 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¿ ON THESE [THINGS] WILL YOU RESTRAIN YOURSELF O YAHWEH WILL YOU BE SILENT? AND WILL YOU AFFLICT? US UP TO MUCHNESS 12After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?