1 If only You would tear the heavens openand come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence —
2 as fire kindles the brushwood,and fire causes water to boil —to make Your name known to Your enemies,so that nations will tremble at Your presence!
3 When You did awesome works that we did not expect,You came down, and the mountains quaked at Your presence.
4 From ancient times no one has heard,no one has listened,no eye has seen any God except You,who acts on behalf of the one who waits for Him.
5 You welcome the one who joyfully does what is right;they remember You in Your ways.But we have sinned, and You were angry.How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
6 All of us have become like something unclean,and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment; all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
7 No one calls on Your name,striving to take hold of You.For You have hidden Your face from us and made us melt because of our iniquity.