But now, O Lord, thou art our Father: we are the [a]clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the work of thine hands.

Be not angry, O Lord, [b]above measure, neither remember iniquity forever: Lo, we beseech thee, behold, we are all thy people.

10 [c]Thine holy cities lie waste: Zion is a wilderness, and Jerusalem a desert.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 64:8 Albeit, O Lord, by thy just judgment thou mayest utterly destroy us as the potter may his pot, yet we appeal to thy mercies, whereby it hath pleased thee to adopt us to be thy children.
  2. Isaiah 64:9 For so the flesh judgeth when God doth not immediately send succor.
  3. Isaiah 64:10 Which were dedicated to thy service, and to call upon thy Name.

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