³ For when you did awesome^(A) things that we did not expect,
    you came down, and the mountains trembled^(B) before you.
⁴ Since ancient times no one has heard,
    no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,^(C)
    who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.^(D)
5 You come to the help of those who gladly do right,^(E)
    who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them,
    you were angry.^(F)
    How then can we be saved?
⁶ All of us have become like one who is unclean,^(G)
    and all our righteous^(H) acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,^(I)
    and like the wind our sins sweep us away.^(J)
7 No one^(K) calls on your name^(L)
    or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden^(M) your face from us
    and have given us over^(N) to^[a] our sins.

⁸ Yet you, Lord, are our Father.^(O)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;^(P)
    we are all the work of your hand.^(Q)
9 Do not be angry^(R) beyond measure, Lord;
    do not remember our sins^(S) forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray,
    for we are all your people.^(T)