Isaiah 64:2
(As fire kindleth stubble — Fire causeth water to boil,) To make known Thy name to Thine adversaries, From Thy presence do nations tremble.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
1Didst Thou not rend the heavens? Thou didst come down, From thy presence did mountains flow,
Cross References
Exodus 14:4and I have strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hath pursued after them, and I am honoured on Pharaoh, and on all his force, and the Egyptians have known that I [am] Jehovah;' and they do so.
Deuteronomy 2:25This day I begin to put thy dread and thy fear on the face of the peoples under the whole heavens, who hear thy fame, and have trembled and been pained because of thee.
1 Kings 8:41'And also, unto the stranger who is not of Thy people Israel, and hath come from a land afar off for Thy name's sake —
Psalms 46:10Desist, and know that I [am] God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.
Psalms 67:1To the Overseer, with stringed instruments. — A Psalm, a Song. God doth favour us and bless us, Doth cause His face to shine with us. Selah.
Psalms 83:13O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before 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 →