Isaiah 64:5-12

English Standard Version

⁵You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
    those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
    in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?^[a]
⁶^(A)We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
^(B)We all fade like a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
⁷^(C)There is no one who calls upon your name,
    who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
    and have made us melt in^[b] the hand of our iniquities.

⁸^(D)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
    ^(E)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
    ^(F)we are all the work of your hand.
⁹^(G)Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,
    ^(H)and remember not iniquity forever.
    Behold, please look, we are all your people.
¹⁰^(I)Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
    Zion has become a wilderness,
    Jerusalem a desolation.
¹¹^(J)Our holy and beautiful^[c] house,
    where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
    and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
¹²^(K)Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord?
    Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?