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For since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him (64:4) Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, [those that] remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved (64:5) But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away (64:6) And [there is] none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities (64:7) But now, O Lord, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand (64:8) Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people (64:9) Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation (64:10) Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste (64:11) Wilt thou refrain thyself for these [things], O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
(64:12)
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