Isaiah 64:8-10

Expanded Bible

⁸ But Lord, you are our father.
    We are like clay, and you are the potter;
    your hands made us all.
⁹ Lord, don’t continue to be angry with us;
    don’t remember our sins forever.
Please, look at us,
    because we are your people.
¹⁰ Your holy cities ·are empty like the desert [have become a wilderness/wasteland].
    ·Jerusalem [^LZion; ^Cthe location of the Temple] is like a ·desert [wilderness; wasteland];
    it is ·destroyed [a desolation].