Isaiah 64:3
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Isaiah 64:3 in other translations
| BSB | When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence. |
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| WEB | When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence. |
| ASV | When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence. |
| YLT | In Thy doing fearful things--we expect not, Thou didst come down, From Thy presence did mountains flow. |
| DARBY | When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, and the mountains flowed down at thy presence. |
| BBE | While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past. |
| Webster | When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. |
What does Isaiah 64:3 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 64:1-5
The church prays that God's power may be manifested. (Is. 64:1-5) A confession of sin, and afflictions bewailed. (Is. 64:6-12) Verses 1-5 They desire that God would manifest himself to them and for them, so that all may see it. This is applicable to the second coming of Christ, when the Lord himself shall descend from heaven. They plead what God had used to do, and had declared his gracious purpose to do, for his…
Isaiah 64:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 64:3
- Exodus 34:10
And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
- Psalms 65:5-6
By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea: Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:
- Psalms 66:5
Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
- Deuteronomy 10:21
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
- Psalms 106:22
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
- Psalms 66:3
Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
- Habakkuk 3:3
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
- 2 Samuel 7:23
And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
- Psalms 76:12
He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
- Psalms 105:27-36
They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word. He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings. …
- Deuteronomy 4:34
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Psalms 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.
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Context
- Isaiah 64:2
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!
- Isaiah 64:3
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
- Isaiah 64:4
For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Isaiah 64:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Cuando, haciendo terriblezas cuales nunca esperábamos, descendiste, fluyeron los montes delante de ti. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et jamais on n’a entendu, jamais on n’a entendu de l’oreille, jamais l’œil n’a vu, hors toi, ô Dieu, ce que Dieu a préparé pour celui qui s’attend à lui. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | indem du furchtbare Taten vollziehst, die wir nicht erwarteten; o daß du herniederführest, daß vor deinem Angesicht die Berge erbebten! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cum feceris mirabilia, non sustinebimus; descendisti, et a facie tua montes defluxerunt. |