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[a] as fire kindles brushwood,
    the fire causes water to boil,
to make your name known to your adversaries,
    that the nations might tremble from your presence.[b]
When you did terrible deeds which we did not expect,[c] you came down;
    the mountains quaked because of your presence.[d]
And since ancient times they have not heard,
    have not listened,
no eye has seen a God except you;
    he acts[e] for the one who waits for him.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 64:2 Isaiah 64:2–12 in the English Bible is 64:1–11 in the Hebrew Bible
  2. Isaiah 64:2 Literally “face”
  3. Isaiah 64:3 Literally “await”
  4. Isaiah 64:3 Literally “face”
  5. Isaiah 64:4 Literally “makes”