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.
8 Yet you, Lord, are our Father.We are the clay, you are the potter;we are all the work of your hand.
9 Do not be angry beyond measure, Lord;do not remember our sins for ever.Oh, look upon us we pray,for we are all your people.