Words from Isaiah...

For when You did awesome things that we did not expect,

You came down, and the mountains trembled before You.

Since ancient times no one has heard,

no ear has perceived,

no eye has seen any God besides You,

who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

You come to the help of those who gladly do right,

who remember Your ways.

But when we continued to sin against them,

You were angry.

How then can we be saved?

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.

Yet, O LORD, You are our Father.

We are the clay, You are the potter;

we are all the work of Your hand.

Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD;

do not remember our sins forever.

Oh look upon us, we pray,

for we are all your people.

After all this, O LORD, will you hold yourself back?

Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?

(bits and pieces of Isaiah 64)

"Before they call I will answer;

while they are still speaking I will hear."

(Isaiah 65:24)