Isaiah 64:3

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 64:3 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.
  2. 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, before your eyes?
  3. 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.
  4. Judges 5:4O 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.
  5. 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 gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.
  6. Psalms 65:5With 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.
  7. Psalms 66:3Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
  8. Psalms 66:5Come and see the works of God; how awesome are His deeds toward mankind.
  9. Psalms 68:8the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.
  10. Psalms 76:12He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.
  11. Psalms 105:27They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
  12. Psalms 106:22wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
  13. Isaiah 64:1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
  14. 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.
  15. 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.

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