No one calls on your name,
striving to take hold of you.
For you have hidden your face from us(A)
and made us melt because of[a][b] our iniquity.
Yet Lord, you are our Father;(B)
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we all are the work of your hands.(C)
Lord, do not be terribly angry
or remember our iniquity forever.(D)
Please look—all of us are your people!

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  1. 64:7 LXX, Syr, Vg, Tg read and delivered us into the hand of
  2. 64:7 Lit melt by the hand of

No one(A) calls on your name(B)
    or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden(C) your face from us
    and have given us over(D) to[a] our sins.

Yet you, Lord, are our Father.(E)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;(F)
    we are all the work of your hand.(G)
Do not be angry(H) beyond measure, Lord;
    do not remember our sins(I) forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray,
    for we are all your people.(J)

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  1. Isaiah 64:7 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew have made us melt because of

13 Only acknowledge your guilt(A)
you have rebelled against the Lord your God.(B)
You have scattered your favors to strangers
under every green tree(C)
and have not obeyed me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

14 “‘Return, you faithless children(D)—this is the Lord’s declaration—for I am your master,[a](E) and I will take you,(F) one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

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  1. 3:14 Or husband

13 Only acknowledge(A) your guilt—
    you have rebelled against the Lord your God,
you have scattered your favors to foreign gods(B)
    under every spreading tree,(C)
    and have not obeyed(D) me,’”
declares the Lord.

14 “Return,(E) faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband.(F) I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.

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