King James Version
Isaiah 64:1 in the King James Version says “Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 64 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,”
Isaiah 64:1 · KJV
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! the melting: Heb. the fire of meltings
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“that thou wouldest rend”
H7167to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)
“the heavens”
H8064the 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 r
“that thou wouldest come down”
H3381to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); cau
“at thy presence”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
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