Isaiah 63:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

¹⁷ Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.

¹⁸ They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary.