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Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.

So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.