Isaiah 64 - Heartlight

¹If only You would rend the heavens and come down,

so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

²as fire kindles the brushwood

and causes the water to boil,

to make Your name known to Your enemies,

so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!

³When You did awesome works that we did not expect,

You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.

⁴From ancient times no one has heard,

no ear has perceived,

no eye has seen any God besides You,

who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

⁵You welcome those who gladly do right,

who remember Your ways.

Surely You were angry, for we sinned.

How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?

⁶Each of us has become like something unclean,

and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;

we all wither like a leaf,

and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

⁷No one calls on Your name

or strives to take hold of You.

For You have hidden Your face from us

and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

⁸But now, O LORD, You are our Father;

we are the clay, and You are the potter;

we are all the work of Your hand.

⁹Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure;

do not remember our iniquity forever.

Oh, look upon us, we pray;

we are all Your people!

¹⁰Your holy cities have become a wilderness.

Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.

¹¹Our holy and beautiful temple,

where our fathers praised You,

has been burned with fire,

and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

¹²After all this, O LORD,

will You restrain Yourself?

Will You keep silent

and afflict us beyond measure?

— Isaiah 64

(BSB)

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The Potter's Hand

Illustration of Isaiah 64:8

O Lord, you are our father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are the work of your hand. - Isaiah 64:8

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