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10 Your holy cities[a] have become a wilderness;
    Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and beautiful temple,[b] where our ancestors[c] praised you has been burned[d] by fire,
    and all our precious objects have become ruins.[e]
12 Will you control yourself because of these, Yahweh?
    Will you be silent?
        And will you oppress us exceedingly?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 64:10 Literally “The cities of your holiness”
  2. Isaiah 64:11 Literally “the house of our holiness and our beauty”
  3. Isaiah 64:11 Or “fathers”
  4. Isaiah 64:11 Literally “been for burning”
  5. Isaiah 64:11 Hebrew “ruin”