Isaiah 64:3

When thou didst fearful things we could not expect, Thou camest down at thy presence, mountains, quaked.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

In Context

2At thy presence, had mountains, quaked: As fire kindleth brushwood, [As] fire causeth, water, to boil, So if thou wouldst make known thy Name to thine adversaries, At thy presence, nations, would tremble.

4Although from age-past times It was never heard, It was not perceived by the ear,—Neither did, the eye, ever see—That, a god besides thee, could work for the man who waited for him,

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Cross References

Exodus 34:10And he said—Lo! I, am about to solemnise a covenant,-in presence of all thy people, will I do marvellous things, which have not been created in any part of the earth nor among any of the nations,—so shall all the people in whose midst thou, art see the work of Yahweh for a fearful thing, it is, which I, am doing with thee.

Deuteronomy 10:21He, is thy song of praise, And, he, thy God,—who hath done with thee these great and fearful things, which thine own eyes have seen.

2 Samuel 7:23Who, then, is like thy people, like Israel, a nation alone in the earth? whom God went to redeem for himself as a people, so to make himself a name, and to do for you the great deed, fearful things also for thy land, to make way for thy people, whom thou hadst redeemed for thyself, out of Egypt, [dealing with] nations and their god’s;

Psalms 66:3Say unto God—How fearful in thy doings, Through the abounding of thy power, shall thy foes come cringing unto thee;

Psalms 68:8Earth, trembled, Yea, the heavens, dripped at the presence of God,—This Sinai—at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

Psalms 105:27He set among them his threatening signs, And his wonders, in the land of Ham;

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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