Isaiah 64:9-11

New International Reader's Version

⁹ Don’t be so angry with us, Lord.
    Don’t remember our sins anymore.
Please have mercy on us.
    All of us belong to you.
¹⁰ Your sacred cities have become a desert.
    Even Zion is a desert.
    Jerusalem is a dry and empty place.
¹¹ Our people of long ago used to praise you in our holy and glorious temple.
    But now it has been burned down.
    Everything we treasured has been destroyed.