Isaiah 64:3

In 11 translations

BSB

When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.

KJV

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

WEB

When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.

ASV

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

LSV

In Your doing fearful things [that] we do not expect, || You came down, || Mountains flowed from Your presence.

YLT

In Thy doing fearful things — we expect not, Thou didst come down, From Thy presence did mountains flow.

DBY

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

DRC

When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.

GNV

When thou diddest terrible things, which we looked not for, thou camest downe, and the mountaines melted at thy presence.

JPS64:2

When Thou didst tremendous things which we looked not for — Oh that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence! —

LXXE64:2

whenever thou shalt work gloriously; trembling from thee shall take hold upon the mountains.

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Original-language editions

WLC64:2

בַּעֲשׂוֹתְךָ֥ נוֹרָא֖וֹת לֹ֣א נְקַוֶּ֑ה יָרַ֕דְתָּ מִפָּנֶ֖יךָ הָרִ֥ים נָזֹֽלּוּ׃KJV:Isa.64.3

LXX-Br64:2

ὅταν ποιῇς τὰ ἔνδοξα· τρόμος λήψεται ἀπὸ σοῦ ὄρη.

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• Exodus 34:10And the LORD said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the LORD’s work,…
• Psalms 106:22wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
• Deuteronomy 10:21He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.
• Psalms 66:5Come and see the works of God; how awesome are His deeds toward mankind.
• Habakkuk 3:3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.
• Psalms 66:3Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
• Psalms 65:5–6With awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas. You formed the mountains by Your power, having girded Yourself with might.
• Psalms 68:8the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.
• Isaiah 64:1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
• Judges 5:4–5O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water. The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai,…
• Deuteronomy 4:34Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt,…
• Habakkuk 3:6He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
• Psalms 105:27–36They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. He sent darkness, and it became dark— yet they defied His words. He turned their waters to blood and caused their fish to die. Their land…
• 2 Samuel 7:23And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their…
• Psalms 76:12He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.

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