Isaiah 64:2
(As fire kindles stubble—Fire causes water to boil), || To make Your Name known to Your adversaries, || Nations tremble from Your presence.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1Did You not tear the heavens? You came down, || Mountains flowed from Your presence,
Cross References
Exodus 14:4and I have strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he has pursued after them, and I am honored by Pharaoh, and by all his force, and the Egyptians have known that I [am] YHWH”; and they do so.
Deuteronomy 2:25This [is] the day I begin to put your dread and your fear on the face of the peoples under the whole heavens, who hear your fame, and have trembled and been pained because of you.
1 Kings 8:41And also, to the stranger who is not of Your people Israel, and has come from a far-off land for Your Name’s sake—
Psalms 46:10Desist, and know that I [am] God, || I am exalted among nations, || I am exalted in the earth.
Psalms 67:1TO THE OVERSEER. WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. A PSALM. A SONG. God favors us and blesses us, || [And] causes His face to shine with us. Selah.
Psalms 83:13O my God, make them as a rolling thing, || As stubble before wind.
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 →