Isaiah 64:2

as wax melts before the fire; and fire shall burn up the enemies, and your name shall be manifest among the adversaries: at your presence the nations shall be troubled,

LXX2012 (US English)

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

1If you would open the heaven, trembling will take hold upon the mountains from you, and they shall melt,

3whenever you shall work gloriously; trembling from you shall take hold upon the mountains.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:4And I will harden the heart of Pharao, and he shall pursue after them; and I will be glorified in Pharao, and in all his host, and all the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so.

Deuteronomy 2:25Begin to put your terror and your fear on the face of all the nations under heaven, who shall be troubled when they have heard your name, and shall be in anguish + 2:25 Or, for fear of you. Hebraism. before you.

1 Kings 8:41And for the stranger who is not of your people,

Psalms 67:1Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered; and let them that hate him flee from before him. 1

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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