Study Desk

^[a]Oh, that You would rend the heavens and ^(a)come down, That the mountains might ^(b)quake at Your presence—

^[b]As fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil— To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the ^(c)nations may tremble at Your presence!

When You did ^(d)awesome things which we did not expect, You came down, the mountains quaked at Your presence.

For from days of old ^(e)they have not heard or perceived by ear, Nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who acts in behalf of the one who ^(f)waits for Him.

You ^(g)meet him who rejoices in ^(h)doing righteousness, Who ⁽ⁱ⁾remembers You in Your ways. Behold, ^(j)You were angry, for we sinned, We continued in them a long time; And shall we be saved?

For all of us have become like one who is ^(k)unclean, And all our ^(l)righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us ^(m)wither like a leaf, And our ⁽ⁿ⁾iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

There is ^(o)no one who calls on Your name, Who arouses himself to take hold of You; For You have ^(p)hidden Your face from us And have ^[c]delivered us into the power of our iniquities.