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# Isaiah 64

Isaiah 64 is chapter 64 of 66 in the Book of Isaiah. Here are all 12 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The prophet prays for the release of his people; and for the remission of their sins.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Isaiah 64 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. I wish that you would rend the heavens, and then descend! The mountains would flow away before your face.
2. They would melt, as if thoroughly burned by fire. The waters would burn with fire, so that your name might be made known to your enemies, so that the nations would be stirred up before your face.
3. When you will perform miracles, we will not be able to withstand them. You descended, and the mountains flowed away before your presence.
4. From ages past, they have not heard it, and they have not perceived it with the ears. Apart from you, O God, the eye has not seen what you have prepared for those who await you.
5. You have met with those who rejoice in doing justice. By your ways, they will remember you. Behold, you have been angry, for we have sinned. In this, we have continued, but we will be saved.
6. And we have all become like the unclean. And all our justices are like a rag of menstruation. And we have all fallen away, like a leaf. And our iniquities have carried us away, like the wind.
7. There is no one who calls upon your name, who rises up and holds fast to you. You have concealed your face from us, and you have crushed us with the hand of our own iniquity.
8. And now, O Lord, you are our Father, yet truly, we are clay. And you are our Maker, and we are all the works of your hands.
9. Do not be so angry, O Lord, and no longer call to mind our iniquity. Behold, consider that we are all your people.
10. The city of your sanctuary has become a desert. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is desolate.
11. The house of our sanctification and of our glory, where our fathers praised you, has been completely consumed by fire, and all our admirable things have been turned into ruins.
12. Should you restrain yourself, O Lord, concerning these things? Should you remain silent, and afflict us vehemently?

## Isaiah 64 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Utinam dirumperes cælos, et descenderes; a facie tua montes defluerent;
2. sicut exustio ignis tabescerent, aquæ arderent igni: ut notum fieret nomen tuum inimicis tuis; a facie tua gentes turbarentur.
3. Cum feceris mirabilia, non sustinebimus; descendisti, et a facie tua montes defluxerunt.
4. A sæculo non audierunt, neque auribus perceperunt; oculus non vidit, Deus, absque te, quæ præparasti exspectantibus te.
5. Occurristi lætanti, et facienti justitiam; in viis tuis recordabuntur tui. Ecce tu iratus es, et peccavimus; in ipsis fuimus semper, et salvabimur.
6. Et facti sumus ut immundus omnes nos, et quasi pannus menstruatæ universæ justitiæ nostræ; et cecidimus quasi folium universi, et iniquitates nostræ quasi ventus abstulerunt nos.
7. Non est qui invocet nomen tuum; qui consurgat, et teneat te. Abscondisti faciem tuam a nobis, et allisisti nos in manu iniquitatis nostræ.
8. Et nunc, Domine, pater noster es tu, nos vero lutum; et fictor noster tu, et opera manuum tuarum omnes nos.
9. Ne irascaris, Domine, satis, et ne ultra memineris iniquitatis nostræ; ecce, respice, populus tuus omnes nos.
10. Civitas Sancti tui facta est deserta, Sion deserta facta est, Jerusalem desolata est.
11. Domus sanctificationis nostræ et gloriæ nostræ, ubi laudaverunt te patres nostri, facta est in exustionem ignis, et omnia desiderabilia nostra versa sunt in ruinas.
12. Numquid super his continebis te, Domine; tacebis, et affliges nos vehementer?

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 6: “Our justices” … That is, the works by which we pretended to make ourselves just. This is spoken particularly of the sacrifices, sacraments, and ceremonies of the Jews, after the death of Christ, and the promulgation of the new law.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Nov 29, 2026: First Sunday of Advent — First Reading, Isaiah 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).