3When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
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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.
Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
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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