A Prayer for God’s Power
If only You would rend the heavens and come down, Mic 1:3-4Exo 19:18-19Mrk 1:10Nam 1:5-6Rev 20:11Psa 144:5-6Psa 68:8Hab 3:1-13
so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
as fire kindles the brushwood Psa 99:1Jer 33:9Dan 4:32-37Dan 6:25-27Exo 14:4Ezk 38:22-23Isa 37:20Jer 5:22
and causes the water to boil,
to make Your name known to Your enemies,
so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!
When You did awesome works that we did not expect, Exo 34:10Deu 10:21Hab 3:3Psa 106:22Psa 65:5-6Psa 66:3Psa 66:52Sa 7:23
You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.
From ancient times no one has heard, 1Co 2:9-10Psa 31:19Jas 5:7Isa 25:9Col 1:26-27Psa 130:5Eph 3:17-21Gen 49:18
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides You,
who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him. 1
You welcome those who gladly do right, Act 10:35Heb 4:16Php 3:13-15Act 10:2-4Exo 20:24Exo 25:22Exo 29:42-43Exo 30:6
who remember Your ways.
Surely You were angry, for we sinned.
How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
Each of us has become like something unclean, Rom 7:18Rom 7:24Eph 2:1-2Rev 3:17-18Zec 3:3Isa 53:6Job 42:5-6Tit 3:3
and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; 2
we all wither like a leaf,
and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
No one calls on Your name Ezk 22:30Hos 7:14Isa 50:2Isa 59:16Hos 7:7Isa 27:5Isa 54:8Isa 59:2
or strives to take hold of You.
For You have hidden Your face from us
and delivered us into the hand 3of our iniquity.
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; Eph 2:10Psa 119:73Jer 18:2-6Psa 138:8Psa 100:3Isa 29:16Isa 44:24Isa 45:9
we are the clay, and You are the potter;
we are all the work of Your hand.
Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; Mic 7:18-20Psa 74:1-2Psa 79:132Pe 2:17Hab 3:2Isa 43:25Isa 57:17Isa 60:10
do not remember our iniquity forever.
Oh, look upon us, we pray;
we are all Your people!
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Isa 1:7Luk 21:242Ch 36:19-212Ki 25:9Dan 12:7Dan 9:26-27Lam 1:1-4Lam 2:4-8
Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
Our holy and beautiful temple, 2Ki 25:9Psa 74:5-72Ch 36:19Lam 1:10-11Lam 1:7Ezk 24:21Jer 52:13Lam 2:7
where our fathers praised You,
has been burned with fire,
and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
After all this, O LORD, Isa 42:14Psa 74:10-11Psa 74:18-19Psa 83:1Zec 1:12Psa 10:1Psa 79:5Psa 80:3-4
will You restrain Yourself?
Will You keep silent
and afflict us beyond measure?