Isaiah 64:1

If only you would rip the heavens apart and come down! The mountains would tremble in your 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

2In the same way that fire burns wood and makes water boil, make your reputation known to your enemies, so that nations will tremble in your presence!

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8That's why I have come down to rescue them from Egyptian oppression and to take them up from that country to a productive, wide-open land—a land flowing with milk and honey—where currently the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites are living.

Exodus 19:18Smoke poured out over the whole of Mount Sinai because the Lord's presence had come down like fire. The smoke rose up like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain shook furiously.

Psalms 18:7The earth shook to and fro; the foundations of the mountains trembled, shaking because of his anger.

Psalms 68:8the earth quaked, and the heavens shook before God, the one of Sinai; before God, the God of Israel.

Psalms 114:4Mountains jumped in fright like rams, hills startled like lambs.

Psalms 144:5Part your heavens and come down. Touch the mountains so that they give off 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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