Isaiah 64:2

Be like a fire that burns twigs and causes water to boil! Come down in order that your enemies will know who you are, and the people of other nations will tremble in your presence.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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!

In Context

1“ Yahweh, I wish that you would tear open the sky and come down, and cause the mountains to shake in your presence.

3You have done awesome things which we were not expecting you to do; the mountains shook when you came down at Horeb Mountain.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:4But I will make the king stubborn again, and he will take his army and pursue you. Then my people will praise/thank me for winning a victory over the king and his army. And the Egyptians will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.” So Moses/I told my people that, and they did what he/I told them to do.

Deuteronomy 2:25Today I will begin to cause everyone, everywhere, to be afraid of you. Everyone who hears about you will tremble and be terrified.’

1 Kings 8:41There will be some foreigners who do not belong to your Israeli people who have come here from countries far away because they have heard that you are very great and that you perform great miracles. If they come here to this temple to worship you and pray,

Psalms 46:10God says, “Be quiet, and remember that I am God! I will be honored by the people of all nations. I will be honored all over the earth.”

Psalms 67:1God, be merciful to us and bless us; be kind to us [IDM], (Think about that!)

Psalms 83:13My God, cause them to disappear quickly like whirling dust, like chaff that the wind blows away!

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 →

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