1 Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,that the mountains would tremble before you!
2 As when fire sets twigs ablazeand causes water to boil,come down to make your name known to your enemiesand cause the nations to quake before you!
3 For when you did awesome things that we did not expect,you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.
4 Since 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.
5 You come to the help of those who gladly do right,who remember your ways.But when we continued to sin against them,you were angry.How then can we be saved?
6 All of us have become like one who is unclean,and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;we all shrivel up like a leaf,and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
7 No one calls on your nameor strives to lay hold of you;for you have hidden your face from usand have given us over to our sins.