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1 Yahweh, I wish that you would tear open the sky and come down,
and cause the mountains to shake in your presence.
2 May your coming be like a fire that burns twigs
and causes water to boil.
When that happens, your enemies will know who you are,
and the people of other nations will tremble in your presence.
3 You have done awesome deeds which we were not expecting you to do;
the mountains shook when you came down at Sinai Mountain.
4 From long ago, no one has ever seen or heard about a God like you;
you help those who depend on you.
5 You help those who joyfully do what is right,
those who conduct their lives as you want them to.
But we continued to sin,
and so you became angry with us;
we have been sinning for a long time,
so how [RHQ] will be saved?
6 We have all become people who are not fit to worship you;
all of the good things that we have done are only like filthy/blood-stained rags.
We are like leaves that dry up and fall to the ground;
our sins carry us away like leaves that are blown by the wind.
7 No one worships you,
and no one is completely dedicated to [IDI] you.
You have turned away from us,
and you have left us held fast by our sinful behavior.
8 Yahweh, you are our father.
We are only like [MET] clay,
and you created us, like [MET] a potter creates pottery.
9 Please do not continue to be angry with us;
please do not keep thinking about our sins forever.
Do not forget that we are all your people.
10 All of your towns in Judah have become like deserts;
even Jerusalem is destroyed.
11 Your glorious temple on Zion Hill, where our ancestors worshiped you,
has been destroyed by a fire.
And all our other beautiful buildings are ruined.
12 Yahweh, when you see all those things, will you refrain from helping us?
If you do that, you will cause our afflictions to become worse.
Note: The Old Testament in this translation is still being worked on, and is in draft form. Updates will be posted at eBible.org/t4t/.