KJV King James Version
When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
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Isaiah 64:3
When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.
WEB World English Bible
When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
ASV American Standard Version
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
In Thy doing fearful things—we expect not, Thou didst come down, From Thy presence did mountains flow.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 64
1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
2 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!
3 When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, [those that] remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6 But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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Exodus 34:10And 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.Psalm 66:5Come and see the works of God: [he is] terrible [in his] doing toward the children of men.Psalm 65:5-6[By] terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; [who art] the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off [upon] the sea:Psalm 106:22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [and] terrible things by the Red sea.Deuteronomy 10:21He [is] thy praise, and he [is] thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.Psalm 66:3Say unto God, How terrible [art thou in] thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.Habakkuk 3:3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.Isaiah 64:1Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,Habakkuk 3:6He 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.Judges 5:4-5LORD, 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.Psalm 68:8The 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.2 Samuel 7:23And what one nation in the earth [is] like thy people, [even] like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?Deuteronomy 4:34Or hath God assayed to go [and] take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?Psalm 105:27-36They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.Psalm 76:12He shall cut off the spirit of princes: [he is] terrible to the kings of the earth.
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