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Isaiah 64:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Our holy and beautiful   temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned down, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

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He burned the Lord’s temple,  the king’s palace,  and all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down  all the great houses.


During the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into the adversary’s hand, she had no one to help. The adversaries looked at her, laughing over her downfall.


Then the Chaldeans burned God’s temple.  They tore down Jerusalem’s wall, burned all its palaces, and destroyed all its valuable articles.


Say to the house of Israel, “This is what the Lord God says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your heart. Also, the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.


The Lord has rejected his altar, repudiated his sanctuary; he has handed the walls of her palaces over to the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the  Lord as on the day of an appointed festival.


He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down all the great houses.


He replied to them, ‘Do you see all these things? Truly I tell you, not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down.’


‘As for you, son of man, know that on that day I will take from them their stronghold #– #their pride and joy, the delight of their eyes, and the longing of their hearts #– #as well as their sons and daughters.


The priests and the Levites were standing at their stations. The Levites had the musical instruments of the Lord, which King David had made to give thanks to the Lord  #– #‘for his faithful love endures for ever’ #– #when he offered praise with them.  Opposite the Levites, the priests were blowing trumpets, and all the people were standing.


All the Israelites were watching when the fire descended and the glory of the Lord came on the temple. They bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground. They worshipped and praised the Lord: For he is good, for his faithful love endures for ever.


He said: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel! He spoke directly to my father David, and he has fulfilled the promise by his power. He said,


‘Blessed be the Lord! He has given rest  to his people Israel according to all he has said. Not one of all the good promises he made through his servant Moses has failed.


The king turned around and blessed  the entire congregation of Israel while they were standing.


All its soil will be a burning waste of sulphur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in his fierce anger.


Your holy people had a possession for a little while, but our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.


How the Lord has overshadowed Daughter Zion with his anger! He has thrown down Israel’s glory from heaven to earth. He did not acknowledge his footstool in the day of his anger.


Then the angel of the Lord responded, ‘How long, Lord of Armies, will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that you have been angry with these seventy years? ’





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