Isaiah 64:1

Did You not tear the heavens? You came down, || Mountains flowed from Your presence,

Literal Standard 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

2(As fire kindles stubble—Fire causes water to boil), || To make Your Name known to Your adversaries, || Nations tremble from Your presence.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8and I go down to deliver it out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to cause it to go up out of the land to a land good and broad, to a land flowing with milk and honey—to 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 [is] wholly [in] smoke from the presence of YHWH, who has come down on it in fire, and its smoke goes up as smoke of the furnace, and the whole mountain trembles exceedingly;

Psalms 18:7And the earth shakes and trembles, || And foundations of hills are troubled, || And they shake—because He has wrath.

Psalms 68:8The earth has shaken, || Indeed, the heavens have dropped before God, || This Sinai—before God, the God of Israel.

Psalms 114:4The mountains have skipped as rams, || Heights as sons of a flock.

Psalms 144:5YHWH, incline Your heavens and come down, || Strike against mountains, and they 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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