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Isaiah 64:1 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 64 · verse 1
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,Isaiah 64:1 · King James Version
Isaiah 64:1 in context
1Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
2As 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!
3When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
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Key words (Strong's)
- mountainshara mountain or range of hillsH2022 →
- heavensshâmayimthe sky (as aloftH8064 →
- rendqâraʻto rend, literally or figurativelyH7167 →
- Ohlûwʼa conditional particleH3863 →
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Here, I. The petition is that God would appear wonderfully for them now, Isa 64:1, Isa 64:2. Their case was represented in the close of the foregoing chapter as very sad and very hard, and in this case it was time to cry, "Help, Lord;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5