Isaiah 64:1
as wax melts before the fire; and fire shall burn up the enemies, and thy name shall be manifest among the adversaries: at thy presence the nations shall be troubled,
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
2whenever thou shalt work gloriously; trembling from thee shall take hold upon the mountains.
Cross References
Exodus 3:8And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land, and to bring them into a good and wide land, into a land flowing with milk and honey, into the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Girgashites, and Hivites, and Jebusites.
Exodus 19:18The mount of Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because God had descended upon it in fire; and the smoke went up as the smoke of a furnace, and the people were exceedingly amazed.
Psalms 18:7His going forth is from the extremity of heaven, 1 And his circuit to the other end of heaven: 1 And no one shall be hidden from his heat. 1
Psalms 68:8For I have suffered reproach for thy sake; 1 Shame has covered my face. 1
Psalms 114:4Then I called on the name of the Lord: 1 O Lord, deliver my soul. 1
Psalms 144:5And they shall speak of the glorious majesty of thy holiness, 1 And recount thy wonders. 1
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 →