6. All of us have become like one who is unclean,and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;we all shrivel up like a leaf,and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
7. No one calls on your nameor strives to lay hold of you;for you have hidden your face from usand have given us over to our sins.
8. Yet you, Lord, are our Father.We are the clay, you are the potter;we are all the work of your hand.
9. Do not be angry beyond measure, Lord;do not remember our sins for ever.Oh, look upon us we pray,for we are all your people.
10. Your sacred cities have become a wasteland;even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.
11. Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you,has been burned with fire,and all that we treasured lies in ruins.