1 “Oh, if you had split open the heavens and come down! The mountains would have shaken at your presence, 2 as when fire kindles the brushwood, or the fire makes water boil. Oh, that your name would be known by your adversaries, that the nations would tremble at your presence! 3 Previously, when you did marvelous things that we had not expected, you came down, and the mountains trembled at your presence. 4 Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, nor eye seen any God besides you, who does things for him who waits for him. 5 You come to help those who rejoice in doing what is right, those who call to mind your ways and obey them. You were angry when we sinned. In your ways we will always be rescued. 6 For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a menstrual rag. We have all withered like leaves; our iniquities, like the wind, carry us away. 7 There are none who calls on your name, who makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away in the hand of our iniquities. 8 Yet, Yahweh, you are our father; we are the clay. You are our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. 9 Be not too angry, Yahweh, nor always call to mind against us our sins. Please look at us all, your people. 10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised you, has been destroyed by fire, and all that was so dear is in ruins. 12 How can you still hold back, Yahweh? How can you remain silent and continue to humiliate us?”
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Cross references (12)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Micah 1:3–4; Mark 1:10; Exodus 19:18–19; Nahum 1:5–6; Revelation 20:11
- 2 Psalm 99:1; Jeremiah 33:9; Isaiah 37:20; Jeremiah 5:22; Daniel 6:25–27
- 3 Exodus 34:10; Psalm 65:5–6; Psalm 66:5; Deuteronomy 10:21; Psalm 106:22
- 4 1 Corinthians 2:9–10; Psalm 31:19; James 5:7; Isaiah 25:9; Psalm 130:5
- 5 Hebrews 4:16; Acts 10:35; Philippians 3:13–15; Psalm 90:7–9; Exodus 29:42–43
- 6 Romans 7:18; Romans 7:24; Ephesians 2:1–2; Revelation 3:17–18; Zechariah 3:3
- 7 Ezekiel 22:30; Isaiah 50:2; Isaiah 59:16; Hosea 7:14; Hosea 7:7
- 8 Ephesians 2:10; Psalm 119:73; Jeremiah 18:2–6; Psalm 138:8; Psalm 100:3
- 9 Psalm 74:1–2; Psalm 79:13; Micah 7:18–20; Lamentations 5:20; Isaiah 63:19
- 10 Isaiah 1:7; Luke 21:24; Revelation 11:1–2; Psalm 79:1–7; Daniel 12:7
- 11 2 Kings 25:9; Psalm 74:5–7; Lamentations 1:7; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Lamentations 1:10–11
- 12 Isaiah 42:14; Psalm 74:10–11; Psalm 83:1; Zechariah 1:12; Psalm 74:18–19
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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… of our sanctuary has become a curse, and the glory which our fathers blessed is burned up with fire, and all its glorious things are laid waste: and Thou refrainest Thyself at these things, and hast held Thy peace, and hast humbled us very sore." And ye are convinced that Jerusalem has been laid waste, as was predicted.
… the resurrection of the just, and fulfils the promises for the kingdom of His Son; subsequently bestowing in a paternal manner those things which neither the eye has seen, nor the ear has heard, nor has [thought concerning them] arisen within the heart of man, For there is the one Son, who accomplished His Father's will; and one human race …
… things which are before," we were seeking between ourselves in the presence of the Truth, which Thou art, of what nature the eternal life of the saints would be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man. But yet we opened wide the mouth of our heart, after those supernal streams of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Thou art our Father: and we all are clay, the works of Thine hands.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
For what we shall yet know, neither eye hath seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered the heart of man. For what is faith, but believing what you see not?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)