64:1 sicut exustio ignis tabescerent, aquæ arderent igni : ut notum fieret nomen tuum inimicis tuis ; a facie tua gentes turbarentur.

64:1 They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the nations might tremble at thy presence.

64:2 Cum feceris mirabilia, non sustinebimus ; descendisti, et a facie tua montes defluxerunt.

64:2 When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.

64:3 A sæculo non audierunt, neque auribus perceperunt ; oculus non vidit, Deus, absque te, quæ præparasti exspectantibus te.

64:3 From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.

64:4 Occurristi lætanti, et facienti justitiam ; in viis tuis recordabuntur tui. Ecce tu iratus es, et peccavimus ; in ipsis fuimus semper, et salvabimur.

64:4 Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved.

64:5 Et facti sumus ut immundus omnes nos, et quasi pannus menstruatæ universæ justitiæ nostræ ; et cecidimus quasi folium universi, et iniquitates nostræ quasi ventus abstulerunt nos.

64:5 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

64:6 Non est qui invocet nomen tuum ; qui consurgat, et teneat te. Abscondisti faciem tuam a nobis, et allisisti nos in manu iniquitatis nostræ.

64:6 There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.

64:7 Et nunc, Domine, pater noster es tu, nos vero lutum ; et fictor noster tu, et opera manuum tuarum omnes nos.

64:7 And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

64:8 Ne irascaris, Domine, satis, et ne ultra memineris iniquitatis nostræ ; ecce, respice, populus tuus omnes nos.

64:8 Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people.

64:9 Civitas Sancti tui facta est deserta, Sion deserta facta est, Jerusalem desolata est.

64:9 The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a desert, Jerusalem is desolate.

64:10 Domus sanctificationis nostræ et gloriæ nostræ, ubi laudaverunt te patres nostri, facta est in exustionem ignis, et omnia desiderabilia nostra versa sunt in ruinas.

64:10 The house of our holiness, and of our glory, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely things are turned into ruins.

64:11 Numquid super his continebis te, Domine ; tacebis, et affliges nos vehementer ?

64:11 Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon these things, wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us vehemently?