1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, 2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! 3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. 4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. 5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6 But we are all as an unclean thing , and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
9 ¶ Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things , O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
1 utinam disrumperes caelos et descenderes
a facie tua montes defluerent
2 sicut exustio ignis tabescerent aquae arderent igni
ut notum fieret nomen tuum inimicis tuis
a facie tua gentes turbarentur
3 cum feceris mirabilia non sustinebimus
descendisti et a facie tua montes defluxerunt
4 a saeculo non audierunt neque auribus perceperunt
oculus non vidit Deus absque te
quae praeparasti expectantibus te
5 occurristi laetanti et facienti iustitiam
in viis tuis recordabuntur tui
ecce tu iratus es et peccavimus
in ipsis fuimus semper et salvabimur
6 et facti sumus ut inmundus omnes nos
quasi pannus menstruatae universae iustitiae nostrae
et cecidimus quasi folium universi
et iniquitates nostrae quasi ventus abstulerunt nos
7 non est qui invocet nomen tuum qui consurgat et teneat te
abscondisti faciem tuam a nobis
et adlisisti nos in manu iniquitatis nostrae
8 et nunc Domine pater noster es tu nos vero lutum
et fictor noster et opera manuum tuarum omnes nos
9 ne irascaris Domine satis
et ne ultra memineris iniquitatis
ecce respice populus tuus omnes nos
10 civitas sancti tui facta est deserta Sion
deserta facta est Hierusalem
desolata
11 domus sanctificationis nostrae et gloriae nostrae
ubi laudaverunt te patres nostri
facta est in exustionem ignis
et omnia desiderabilia nostra versa sunt in ruinas
12 numquid super his continebis te Domine
tacebis et adfliges nos vehementer