Isaiah 64:1

O that thou wouldest cleaue the heauens in sunder & come downe, that the mountaines might melt away at thy presence:

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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

2Like as at an hotte fire, and [that the malitious might boyle away] as the water doth vpon the fire: whereby thy name might be knowen among thyne enemies, and that the gentiles might tremble before thee.

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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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