Isaiah 64:2
as when fire kindleth the brushwood, and the fire causeth the waters to boil: to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence.
Revised Version 1895
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Exodus 14:4And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he shall follow after them; and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD. And they did so.
Deuteronomy 2:25This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
1 Kings 8:41Moreover concerning the stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for thy name’s sake;
Psalms 46:10Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
Psalms 67:1God be merciful unto us, and bless us, and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah
Psalms 83:13O my God, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind.
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 →