Isaiah 63:15-64:5

New King James Version

^15 (A)Look down from heaven,
And see ^(B)from Your habitation, holy and glorious.
Where are Your zeal and Your strength,
The yearning ^(C)of Your heart and Your mercies toward me?
Are they restrained?
^16 (D)Doubtless You are our Father,
Though Abraham ^(E)was ignorant of us,
And Israel does not acknowledge us.
You, O Lord, are our Father;
Our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
¹⁷ O Lord, why have You ^(F)made us stray from Your ways,
And hardened our heart from Your fear?
Return for Your servants’ sake,
The tribes of Your inheritance.
^18 (G)Your holy people have possessed it but a little while;
^(H)Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.
¹⁹ We have become like those of old, over whom You never ruled,
Those who were never called by Your name.

64 Oh, that You would ^[a]rend the heavens!
That You would come down!
That the mountains might shake at Your ^(I)presence—
² As fire burns brushwood,
As fire causes water to boil—
To make Your name known to Your adversaries,
That the nations may tremble at Your presence!
³ When ^(J)You did awesome things for which we did not look,
You came down,
The mountains shook at Your presence.
⁴ For since the beginning of the world
^(K)Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear,
Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,
Who acts for the one who waits for Him.
⁵ You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,
Who remembers You in Your ways.
You are indeed angry, for we have sinned—
^(L)In these ways we continue;
And we need to be saved.