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

For since the beginning of the world, they have not [a]heard nor understood with the ear, neither hath the eye seen another God beside thee, which doeth so to him that waiteth for him.

Thou didst meet him, [b]that rejoiced in thee, and did justly: they remembered thee in thy [c]ways: behold, thou art angry, for we have sinned: yet in [d]them is continuance, and we [e]shall be saved.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 64:4 S. Paul useth the same kind of admiration, 1 Cor. 2:9, marveling at God’s great benefit showed to his Church, by the preaching of the Gospel.
  2. Isaiah 64:5 Thou showedst favor toward our fathers, when they trusted in thee, and walked after thy Commandments.
  3. Isaiah 64:5 They considered thy great mercies.
  4. Isaiah 64:5 That is, in thy mercies, which he calleth the ways of the Lord.
  5. Isaiah 64:5 Thou wilt have pity upon us.

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