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Isaiah 64

Isa. 64:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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luw' (Hebrew #3863)
or luw {loo}; a conditional particle; if; by implication (interj. as a wish) would that!
KJV usage: if (haply), peradventure, I pray thee, though, I would, would God (that).
Pronounce: loo
Origin: or lu {loo}
x that thou wouldest rend
qara` (Hebrew #7167)
to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)
KJV usage: cut out, rend, X surely, tear.
Pronounce: kaw-rah'
Origin: a primitive root
the heavens
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
, that thou wouldest come down
yarad (Hebrew #3381)
a primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications): --X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
Pronounce: yaw-rad'
, that the mountains
har (Hebrew #2022)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion.
Pronounce: har
Origin: a shortened form of 2042
y might flow down
zalal (Hebrew #2151)
to shake (as in the wind), i.e. to quake; figuratively, to be loose morally, worthless or prodigal
KJV usage: blow down, glutton, riotous (eater), vile.
Pronounce: zaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2107)
at thy presence
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
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Psa. 144:5• 5Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. (Psa. 144:5)
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Judg. 5:5• 5The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel. (Judg. 5:5)
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Mic. 1:4• 4And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place. (Mic. 1:4)

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-3:  The church prays for the illustration of God's power.
4-8:  Celebrating God's mercy, it makes confession of their natural corruptions.
9-12:  It complains of their afflictions.
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Psa. 18:7‑15• 7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
 8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
 9He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
 10And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
 11He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
 12At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
 13The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
 14Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
 15Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. (Psa. 18:7‑15)
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Psa. 144:5‑6• 5Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
 6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. (Psa. 144:5‑6)
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Mark 1:10• 10And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: (Mark 1:10)
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Mark 1•  (Mark 1)
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that thou wouldest come.
Isa. 63:15• 15Look 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? (Isa. 63:15)
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Ex. 3:8• 8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. (Ex. 3:8)
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Ex. 19:11,18‑19• 11And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
 18And 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.
 19And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. (Ex. 19:11,18‑19)
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Mic. 1:3‑4• 3For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
 4And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place. (Mic. 1:3‑4)
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Hab. 3:1‑13• 1A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
 2O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
 3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
 4And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
 5Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
 6He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
 7I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
 8Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
 9Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
 10The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
 11The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
 12Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
 13Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. (Hab. 3:1‑13)
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Judg. 5:4‑5• 4Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
 5The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel. (Judg. 5:4‑5)
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Psa. 46:6• 6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. (Psa. 46:6)
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Psa. 68:8• 8The 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. (Psa. 68:8)
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Psa. 114:4‑7• 4The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
 5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
 6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
 7Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; (Psa. 114:4‑7)
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Amos 9:5,13• 5And the Lord God of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
 13Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. (Amos 9:5,13)
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Nah. 1:5‑6• 5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
 6Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. (Nah. 1:5‑6)
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2 Peter 3:10‑12• 10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
 11Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
 12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? (2 Peter 3:10‑12)
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Rev. 20:11• 11And 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. (Rev. 20:11)
• He desired that God would personally intervene in power and in judgment. (“Isaiah 64” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down,—that the mountains might flow downb at thy presence,

JND Translation Notes

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Or "quake."