Isaiah 64:1
Oh, that thou wouldest breake the heauens, and come downe, and that the mountaines might melt at thy presence!
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Exodus 3:8Therefore I am come downe to deliuer them out of the hande of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that lande into a good lande and a large, into a lande that floweth with milke and honie, euen into the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites.
Exodus 19:18And mount Sinai was all on smoke, because the Lord came downe vpon it in fire, and the smoke therof ascended, as the smoke of a fornace, and all the mount trembled exceedingly.
Psalms 18:7Then the earth trembled, and quaked: the foundations also of the mountaines mooued and shooke, because he was angrie.
Psalms 68:8The earth shooke, and the heauens dropped at the presence of this God: euen Sinai was moued at the presence of God, euen the God of Israel.
Psalms 114:4The mountaines leaped like rams, and the hils as lambes.
Psalms 144:5Bow thine heauens, O Lord, and come downe: touch the mountaines and they shall 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 →