1O that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down,
2As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil,
3When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for,
4For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,
5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness,
6But we are all as an unclean thing,
7And there is none that calleth upon thy name,
8But now, O Lord, thou art our father;
9Be not wroth very sore, O Lord,
10Thy holy cities are a wilderness,
11Our holy and our beautiful house,
12Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord?