Isaiah 64:1

“Oh, if you had split open the heavens and come down! The mountains would have shaken at your presence, 1

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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 when fire kindles the brushwood, or the fire makes water boil. 1 Oh, that your name would be known by your adversaries, that the nations would tremble at your presence! 1

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8I have come down to free them from the Egyptians' power and to bring them up from that land to a good, large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Exodus 19:18Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because Yahweh descended on it in fire and smoke. The smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

Psalms 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of the mountains also trembled 1 and were shaken because God was angry. 1

Psalms 68:8The earth trembled; 1 the heavens also dropped rain in God's presence, 1 in the presence of God when he came to Sinai, in the presence of God, the God of Israel. 1

Psalms 114:4The mountains skipped like rams, 1 the hills skipped like lambs. 1

Psalms 144:5Cause the sky to sink and come down, Yahweh; 1 touch the mountains and make them smoke. 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 →

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