Isaiah 63:15-Isaiah 64:12 - Prayer For Mercy

¹⁵ Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me. ¹⁶ For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name. ¹⁷ O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance. ¹⁸ Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. ¹⁹ We have become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.

¹ Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence, ² as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! ³ When you did awesome things which we didn't look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. ⁴ For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him. ⁵ You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time; and shall we be saved? ⁶ For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. ⁷ There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

⁸ But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. ⁹ Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people. ¹⁰ Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. ¹¹ Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste. ¹² Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? Will you hold your peace, and afflict us very severely?