Our Father and Potter​

Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
   that the mountains might quake at your presence—
2  as when fire kindles brushwood
   and the fire causes water to boil—
to make your name known to your adversaries,
   and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
3 When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
   you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 From of old no one has heard
   or perceived by the ear,
no eye has seen a God besides you,
   who acts for those who wait for him.
5 You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
   those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
   in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?
6 We have all become like one who is unclean,
   and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf,
   and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 There is no one who calls upon your name,
   who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
   and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.

8 But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
   we are the clay, and you are our potter;
   we are all the work of your hand.
9 Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,
   and remember not iniquity forever.
   Behold, please look, we are all your people.

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Isaiah 64:1-9 ESV

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