- 1. O let the heavens be broken open and come down, so that the mountains may be shaking before you, As when fire puts the brushwood in flames, or as when water is boiling from the heat of the fire: to make your name feared by your haters, so that the nations may be shaking before you;
- 2. While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.
- 3. The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ... any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.
- 4. Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.
- 5. For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.
- 6. And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.
- 7. But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.
- 8. Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.
- 9. Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.
- 10. Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.
- 11. In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?
- 12. Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me.
- 13. For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed:
- 14. My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.
- 15. And your name will become a curse to my people, and the Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another name:
- 16. So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.
- 17. For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.
- 18. But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.
- 19. And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.
- 20. No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.
- 21. And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.
- 22. They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.
- 23. Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.
- 24. And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.
- 25. The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.
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