4 No one has ever heard,no one has paid attention,and no one has seen any god except you.You help those who wait for you.
5 You greeted the one who gladly does right and remembers your ways.You showed your anger, because we’ve sinned.We’ve continued to sin for a long time.Can we still be saved?
6 We’ve all become unclean,and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags.All of us shrivel like leaves,and our sins carry us away like the wind.
7 No one calls on your nameor tries to hold on to you.You have hidden your face from us.You have let us be ruined by our sins.
8 But now, Lord, you are our Father.We are the clay, and you are our potter.We are the work of your hands.
9 Don’t be too angry, Lord.Don’t remember our sin forever.Now look, we are all your people.
10 Your holy cities have become a desert.Zion has become a desert.Jerusalem is a wasteland.