Isaiah 64:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

Isaiah 64:3 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 66:5
Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
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.
Psalms 106:22
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
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.

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Atheism Attributes of God God Guidance Lord Majesty Mountain Theology

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 deliver…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. When--Supply from Is 64:2, “As when.” terrible things--(Psa 65:5). we looked not for--far exceeding the expectation of any of our nation; unparalleled before (Ex 34:10; Psa 68:8). camest down--on Mount Sinai. mountains flowed--Repeated from Is 64:1; they pray God to do the very same things for Israel now as in former ages. Gesenius, instead of “flowed” here, and “flow” in Is 64:1, translates fr…