Isaiah 64:3

When you will perform miracles, we will not be able to withstand them. You descended, and the mountains flowed away before your presence.

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In The King James Version

When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

In Context

2They 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.

4From 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.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:10The Lord responded: “I will enter into a pact in the sight of all. I will perform signs which have never been seen on earth, nor among any nation, so that this people, in whose midst you are, may discern the terrible work of the Lord that I will do.

Deuteronomy 10:21He is your praise and your God. He has done for you these great and terrible things, which your eyes have seen.

2 Samuel 7:23But what nation is there upon the earth like your people Israel, because of whom God went forth, so that he might redeem a people for himself, and establish a name for himself, and accomplish for them great and terrible things upon the earth, before the face of your people, whom you redeemed for yourself away from Egypt, the nations and their gods.

Psalms 66:3So may we know your way upon the earth, your salvation among all nations.

Psalms 68:8For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face.

Psalms 105:27and in order to cast their offspring among the nations, and to scatter them among the regions.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 64:2-6

Prayer for the Divine Presence; Blessings Prepared for the Saints. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, 2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! 3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. 4 For since the beginning of… Read the whole commentary →

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