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[a]just as fire sets twigs[b] ablaze
    and the fire causes water to boil—
to make known your name to your enemies,
    yes, to your enemies before you,[c]
        so that the nations might quake at your presence!
When you did awesome deeds that we expected,[d]
    you came down,
        and the mountains shuddered before you.

Since[e] ancient times no one has heard,
    and[f] no ear has perceived,
and[g] no eye has seen any God besides you,
    who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 64:2 This v. is 64:1 in the MT
  2. Isaiah 64:2 Or brushwood
  3. Isaiah 64:2 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads to make your name known to your adversaries
  4. Isaiah 64:3 So 1QIsaa; MT reads did not expect
  5. Isaiah 64:4 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads And since
  6. Isaiah 64:4 So 1QIsaa; MT lacks and
  7. Isaiah 64:4 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks and