1Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
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For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. …
And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
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.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. …
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. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here, I. The petition is that God would appear wonderfully for them now, Isa. 63:1 , 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; O that God would manifest his zeal and his strength!” They had prayed (Isa. 63:15) that God would look down from heaven ; here they pray that he would come down to deliv…
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