In Hebrew texts 64:1 is numbered 63:19b, and 64:2-12 is numbered 64:1-11. 1Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,
that the mountains would tremble before you!
2As when fire sets twigs ablaze
and causes water to boil,
come down to make your name known to your enemies
and cause the nations to quake before you!
3For when you did awesome things that we did not expect,
you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.
4Since ancient times no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
5You come to the help of those who gladly do right,
who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them,
you were angry.
How then can we be saved?
6All of us have become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
7No one calls on your name
or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us
and have given us over to64:7 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew have made us melt because of our sins.
8Yet you, Lord, are our Father.
We are the clay, you are the potter;
we are all the work of your hand.
9Do not be angry beyond measure, Lord;
do not remember our sins forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray,
for we are all your people.
10Your sacred cities have become a wasteland;
even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.
11Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned with fire,
and all that we treasured lies in ruins.
12After all this, Lord, will you hold yourself back?
Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?
1Ìwọ ìbá fa ọ̀run ya kí o sì sọ̀kalẹ̀ wá,
tí àwọn òkè ńlá yóò fi wárìrì níwájú rẹ!
2Gẹ́gẹ́ bí ìgbà tí iná mú ẹ̀ka igi jó
tí ó sì mú kí omi ó hó,
sọ̀kalẹ̀ wá kí orúkọ rẹ le di mí mọ̀ fún àwọn ọ̀tá rẹ
kí o sì jẹ́ kí àwọn orílẹ̀-èdè kí ó wárìrì níwájú rẹ!
3Nítorí nígbà tí o bá ṣe àwọn ohun ẹ̀rù tí àwa kò nírètí,
o sọ̀kalẹ̀ wá, àwọn òkè ńlá sì wárìrì níwájú rẹ̀.
464.4: 1Kọ 2.9.Láti ìgbà àtijọ́ kò sí ẹni tí ó gbọ́ rí
kò sí etí kan tí ó gbọ́ ọ,
kò sí ojú tí ó tí ì rí Ọlọ́run mìíràn lẹ́yìn rẹ,
tí ó máa ń ṣe nǹkan lórúkọ àwọn tí ó dúró dè é.
5Ìwọ a máa wá fún ìrànlọ́wọ́ àwọn tí wọn
ń fi ayọ̀ ṣe ohun tó tọ́,
tí ó rántí ọ̀nà rẹ.
Ṣùgbọ́n nígbà tí a bẹ̀rẹ̀ sí dẹ́ṣẹ̀ sí wọn,
inú bí ọ.
Báwo ni a ó ṣe gbà wá là?
6Gbogbo wa ti dàbí ẹnìkan tí ó jẹ́ aláìmọ́,
gbogbo òdodo wa sì dàbí èkísà ẹlẹ́gbin;
gbogbo wa kákò bí ewé,
àti bí afẹ́fẹ́, ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ wa ti gbá wa lọ kúrò.
7Ẹnikẹ́ni kò pe orúkọ rẹ
tàbí kí ó gbìyànjú láti dì ẹ́ mú;
nítorí ìwọ ti fi ojú rẹ pamọ́ fún wa
ó sì jẹ́ kí àwa ṣòfò dànù nítorí àwọn ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ wa.
8Síbẹ̀síbẹ̀, Olúwa, ìwọ ni Baba wa.
Àwa ni amọ̀, ìwọ ni amọ̀kòkò;
gbogbo wa jẹ́ iṣẹ́ ọwọ́ rẹ.
9Má ṣe bínú kọjá ààlà, ìwọ Olúwa:
Má ṣe rántí gbogbo ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ wa títí láé.
Jọ̀wọ́, bojú wò wá, ni a gbàdúrà,
nítorí ènìyàn rẹ ni gbogbo wa.
10Àwọn ìlú mímọ́ rẹ ti di aṣálẹ̀;
Sioni pàápàá di aṣálẹ̀, Jerusalẹmu di ahoro.
11Tẹmpili mímọ́ ológo wa, níbi tí àwọn baba wa ti yìn ọ́,
ni a ti fi iná sun,
àti ohun gbogbo tí í ṣe ìṣúra wa ti dahoro.
12Lẹ́yìn gbogbo nǹkan wọ̀nyí, Olúwa, ìwọ
ó ha sì tún fi ara rẹ pamọ́ bí?
Ìwọ ó ha dákẹ́ kí o sì fìyà jẹ wá kọjá ààlà bí?
