64 Oh, that You would tear open the heavens and come down,
That the mountains might quake at Your presence—
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As [sure as] fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil—
To make Your name known to Your adversaries,
That the nations may tremble at Your presence!
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When You did awesome and amazing things which we did not expect,
You came down [at Sinai]; the mountains quaked at Your presence.
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For from days of old no one has heard, nor has ear perceived,
Nor has the eye ^[a]seen a God besides You,
Who works and acts in behalf of the one who [gladly] waits for Him.
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You meet him who rejoices in doing that which is morally right,
Who remembers You in Your ways.
Indeed, You were angry, for we sinned;
We have long continued in our sins [prolonging Your anger].
And shall we be saved [under such circumstances]?
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For we all have become like one who is [ceremonially] unclean [like a leper],
And all our deeds of righteousness are like filthy rags;
We all wither and decay like a leaf,
And our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing], like the wind, takes us away [carrying us far from God’s favor, toward destruction].^(A)
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There is no one who calls on Your name,
Who awakens and causes himself to take hold of You;
For You have hidden Your face from us
And have handed us over to the [consuming and destructive] power of our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing].^(B)