Isaias

15 Look from heaven, and see from the habitation of thy holiness and thy beauty: where is thy jealousy, and thy mighty acts? the sounding of thy bowels and thy mercies are restrained towards me.

16 For thou art our father; for Abraham knoweth us not, Israel doth not recognize us: thy name is Our Redeemer from of old.

17 Why dost thou make us stray, O LORD, from thy ways, and harden our heart from fearing thee? Return, for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

18 Thy holy people have possessed for a little while; our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

19 We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, upon whom thy name was not called.

LXIV. 1 O that thou hadst rent the heavens, that thou hadst come down, that the mountains had quaked at thy Presence!