Isaiah 64:8-12

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⁸ But Lord, you are our father.
    We are like clay, and you are the potter;
    your hands made us all.
⁹ Lord, don’t continue to be angry with us;
    don’t remember our sins forever.
Please, look at us,
    because we are your people.
¹⁰ Your holy cities ·are empty like the desert [have become a wilderness/wasteland].
    ·Jerusalem [^LZion; ^Cthe location of the Temple] is like a ·desert [wilderness; wasteland];
    it is ·destroyed [a desolation].
¹¹ Our ancestors worshiped you
    in our holy and wonderful Temple,
but now it has been burned with fire,
    and all our ·precious [treasured; pleasant] things have ·been destroyed [become ruins].
¹² ·When you see these things [After this], will you hold yourself back from helping us, Lord?
    Will you be silent and punish us beyond ·what we can stand [measure]?