Isaiah 64:1

Oh that thou would rend the heavens, that thou would come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

In Context

2as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the A

Exodus 19:18And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because LORD descended upon it in fire, and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace. And the whole mount quaked greatly.

Psalms 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry.

Psalms 68:8the earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God, Sinai at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

Psalms 114:4The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.

Psalms 144:5Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 64:1

This chapter goes on with that pathetic pleading prayer which the church offered up to God in the latter part of the foregoing chapter. They had argued from their covenant-relation to God and his interest and concern in them; now here, I. They pray that God would appear in some remarkable and surprising manner for them against his and their enemies, ver. 1, 2 . II. They plead what God had formerly done, and was always ready to do, for his people, ver. 3-5 . III. They confess themselves to be sinful and unworthy of… Read the whole commentary →

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