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.
8 Yet Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter;we all are the work of Your hands.
9 Lord, do not be terribly angryor remember our iniquity forever. Please look — all of us are Your people!
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness;Zion has become a wilderness,Jerusalem a desolation.