Isaiah 64:1
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
- KJV
- Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
- WEB
- Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence—
- ASV
- Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,
- DARBY
- Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
- BLB
- If only You would rend the heavens [and] come down; at Your presence the mountains would shake,
- OTB
- Om du bare ville åpne himmelen og komme ned, så fjellene kunne skjelve for ditt åsyn—
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Micah 1:3–4
For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
Read in contextMark 1:10
And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
Read in contextExodus 19:18–19
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Read in contextNahum 1:5–6
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Read in contextRevelation 20:11
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Read in contextPsalms 144:5–6
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Read in contextPsalms 68:8
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Read in contextIsaiah 63:15
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
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