Isaiah 64:1
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,
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Exodus 3:8and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus 19:18And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof 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 wroth.
Psalms 68:8The earth trembled, The heavens also dropped [rain] at the presence of God: Yon Sinai [trembled] 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 Jehovah, 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 →