5. You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness,those who remember You in Your ways.Indeed, You were angry, for we had sinned;in our sins we remained a long time,and shall we be saved?
6. But we all are as an unclean thing,and all our righteousness is as filthy rags;and we all fade as a leaf,and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7. There is no one who calls on Your name,who stirs up himself to take hold of You;for You have hidden Your face from usand have consumed us because of our iniquities.
8. But now, O Lord, You are our Father;we are the clay, and You are our potter;and we all are the work of Your hand.
9. Do not be wrathful beyond measure, O Lord,nor remember iniquity forever;look upon us, we pray,we all are Your people.
10. Your holy cities are a wilderness;Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11. Our holy and beautiful house where our fathers praised Youis burned up with fire;and all our precious things are laid waste.
12. Will You refrain Yourself from these things, O Lord?Will You hold Your peace and afflict us beyond measure?