Isa 64:2-12 | ESV | STEP | as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil — to make your name known to your adversaries , and that the nations might tremble at your presence !

Isaiah 64:2-12

2 ^{▼▼Ch 64:1 in Hebrew} as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
^bto make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
3 ^cWhen you did awesome things that we did not look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 ^dFrom of old no one has heard
or perceived by the ear,
^eno eye has seen a God besides you,
who acts for those who wait for him.
5 You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved? ^{▼▼Or in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved}
6 ^gWe have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
^hWe all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 ⁱThere is no one who calls upon your name,
who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have made us melt in ^{▼▼Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum have delivered us into} the hand of our iniquities.
8 ^kBut now, O Lord, you are our Father;
^lwe are the clay, and you are our potter;
^mwe are all the work of your hand.
9 ⁿBe not so terribly angry, O Lord,
^oand remember not iniquity forever.
Behold, please look, we are all your people.
10 ^pYour holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 ^qOur holy and beautiful ^{▼▼Or holy and glorious} house,
where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
12 ^sWill you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord?
Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?