Isaiah 64:3
What does Isaiah 64:3 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 64:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.
KJV
King James Version · 1611When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862In Thy doing fearful things--we expect not, Thou didst come down, From Thy presence did mountains flow.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for, thou camest down, and the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Context
v.2as 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!
v.3This passage
v.4For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God besides thee, who worketh for him that waiteth for him.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 4:34
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Exodus 34:10
And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible thing that I do with thee.
- Isaiah 64:1
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,
- Psalms 76:12
He will cut off the spirit of princes: He is terrible to the kings of the earth.
- Judges 5:4
Jehovah, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, When thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water.
- Habakkuk 3:6
He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered; The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were as of old.
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