Isaiæ 64
1 Utinam dirumperes caelos, et descenderes: a facie tua montes defluerent.
“Oh, if you had split open the heavens and come down! The mountains would have shaken at your presence,
2 Sicut exustio ignis tabescerent, aquae arderent igni, ut notum fieret nomen tuum inimicis tuis: a facie tua gentes turbarentur.
as when fire kindles the brushwood, or the fire makes water boil. Oh, that your name would be known by your adversaries, that the nations would tremble at your presence!
3 Cum feceris mirabilia, non sustinebimus: descendisti, et a facie tua montes defluxerunt.
Previously, when you did marvelous things that we had not expected, you came down, and the mountains trembled at your presence.
4 A saeculo non audierunt, neque auribus perceperunt: oculus non vidit, Deus absque te, quae praeparasti expectantibus te.
Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, nor eye seen any God besides you, who does things for him who waits for him.
5 Occurristi laetanti, et facienti iustitiam: in viis tuis recordabuntur tui: ecce tu iratus es, et peccavimus: in ipsis fuimus semper, et salvabimur.
You come to help those who rejoice in doing what is right, those who call to mind your ways and obey them. You were angry when we sinned. In your ways we will always be rescued.
6 Et facti sumus ut immundi omnes nos, et quasi pannus menstruatae universae iustitiae nostrae: et cecidimus quasi folium universi, et iniquitates nostrae quasi ventus abstulerunt nos.
For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a menstrual rag. We have all withered like leaves; our iniquities, like the wind, carry us away.
7 Non est qui invocet nomen tuum: qui consurgat, et teneat te: abscondisti faciem tuam a nobis, et allisisti nos in manu iniquitatis nostrae.
There are none who calls on your name, who makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away in the hand of our iniquities.
8 Et nunc Domine, pater noster es tu, nos vero lutum: et fictor noster tu, et opera manuum tuarum omnes nos.
Yet, Yahweh, you are our father; we are the clay. You are our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
9 Ne irascaris Domine satis, et ne ultra memineris iniquitatis nostrae: ecce respice, populus tuus omnes nos.
Be not too angry, Yahweh, nor always call to mind against us our sins. Please look at us all, your people.
10 Civitas sancti tui facta est deserta, Sion deserta facta est, Ierusalem desolata est.
Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Domus sanctificationis nostrae, et gloriae nostrae, ubi laudaverunt te patres nostri, facta est in exustionem ignis, et omnia desiderabilia nostra versa sunt in ruinas.
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised you, has been destroyed by fire, and all that was so dear is in ruins.
12 Numquid super his continebis te Domine, tacebis, et affliges nos vehementer?
How can you still hold back, Yahweh? How can you remain silent and continue to humiliate us?”
