Dual Panel1Why did you not tear asunder the heavens and come down, that, when you appeared, the mountains might shake,
2that fire might blaze as it blazes in brushwood when it makes water boil? Then would your name be known to your adversaries, and nations would tremble before you.
3You surprised us with awesome things; the mountains shook when you appeared.
4Never has ear heard or eye seen any other god who acts for those who wait for him.
5You welcome him who rejoices to do what is right, who is mindful of your ways. When you showed your anger, we sinned and, in spite of it, we have done evil from of old.
6We all became like something unclean and all our righteous deeds were like a filthy rag; we have all withered like leaves and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
7There is no one who invokes you by name or rouses himself to hold fast to you; for you have hidden your face from us and left us in the grip of our iniquities.
8Yet, LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, you the potter, and all of us are your handiwork.
9Do not let your anger pass all bounds, LORD, and do not remember iniquity for ever; look on us all, look on your people.
10Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion a wilderness, Jerusalem desolate;
11our holy and glorious sanctuary, in which our forefathers praised you, has been burnt to the ground and all that we cherished lies in ruins.
12Despite this, LORD, will you stand aloof, will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?