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Isaiah 64:7

New English Translation

No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.

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Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

All those who behave wickedly do not understand – those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the Lord.

Why should the Egyptians say, ‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.

unless they became my subjects and made peace with me; let them make peace with me.

One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, “What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”

Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.

In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,” says your protector, the Lord.

For this is what the Lord says: “For the eunuchs who observe my Sabbaths and choose what pleases me and are faithful to my covenant,

I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.

He sees there is no advocate; he is shocked that no one intervenes. So he takes matters into his own hands; his desire for justice drives him on.

But your sinful acts have alienated you from your God; your sins have caused him to reject you and not listen to your prayers.

No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin.

For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not recognize us. You, Lord, are our father; you have been called our protector from ancient times.

Therefore the Lord who rules over all says, “I will now purify them in the fires of affliction and test them. The wickedness of my dear people has left me no choice. What else can I do?

“I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.

Set the empty pot on the coals, until it becomes hot and its copper glows, until its uncleanness melts within it and its rot is consumed.

Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.

They do not pray to me, but howl in distress on their beds; They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from me.

All of them are blazing like an oven; they devour their rulers. All of their kings fall – and none of them call on me!

“A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master. If I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The Lord who rules over all asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply, ‘How have we made light of your name?’

Do we not all have one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we betray one another, in this way making light of the covenant of our ancestors?




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