Isaiah 64:1

If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at 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

2as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Exodus 19:18Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

Psalms 18:7Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

Psalms 68:8the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.

Psalms 114:4the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Psalms 144:5Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may 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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