When thou didst terrible things - In delivering the people from Egypt, and in conducting them to the promised land.
Which we looked not for - Which we had never before witnessed, and which we had no right to expect.
Thou camest down - As on Mount Sinai.
The mountains flowed down - (See the notes above). The reference is to the manifestations of smoke and fire when Yahweh descended on Mount Sinai (see Exodus 19:18).
CHAPTER 63:7-19-64:12 The Great Intercessory Prayer 1. _Jehovah's loving kindness and power in the past remembered (Isaiah 63:7) _ 2. _Their deepest need (Isaiah 63:15) _ 3. The cry of faith, Thou ar...
ISAIAH 63:15 TO ISAIAH 64:9. A FERVENT PRAYER TO YAHWEH TO INTERVENE AGAIN FOR HIS CHILDREN. The appeal rings like a litany, reminding Yahweh, who has withdrawn into His glorious heavenly palace, of H...
WHEN THOU DIDST TERRIBLE THINGS. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 34:10, same word)....
Isaiah 63:7 to Isaiah 64:12. A Prayer of the People for the Renewal of Jehovah's former Lovingkindness (1) Isaiah 63:7. The prayer begins with thankful commemoration of Jehovah's goodness to the nati...
Isaiah 64:1. The language of complaint again gives place (as in Isaiah 63:15) to impatient prayer for a Theophany, an imposing manifestation of Jehovah in His might. It is the great "day of the Lord...
The second part of the verse, being (in the original) verbally repeated from Isaiah 64:1, ought probably to be omitted as a copyist's error. The passage gains in compactness by its excision. Isaiah 64...
OH THAT THOU WOULDST REND, &C.— _Wouldst rend,_ &c. Isaiah 64:2 _as the fire kindleth the dry fuel; as the fire causeth the waters to boil,_ &c. Lowth. The ideas are here taken from the descent of God...
D. RESTLESSNESS OF ZION (cont-'d), Chapter S 63 - 64 4. PENITENTLY VEXED TEXT: Isaiah 64:1-7 1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake a...
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. WHEN THOU DIDST. Supply from Isaiah 64:2, As when, etc. TERRIBLE THINGS - (P...
64:3 down (b-18) Or 'quake.' didst (c-3) Or 'doest.' down, (d-13) Or 'comest down.'...
1-3. The imagery is taken from the account of the divine manifestation at Sinai (Exodus 19:18)....
These verses contain a series of word pictures that describe the effect of God’s arrival....
‘In the past’ refers in particular to the time of Moses when the people escaped from Egypt (see the Book of Exodus). The ‘wonderful deeds’ were all for the benefit of God’s people. God did these thing...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 64 This chapter continues the people’s desperate prayer, which began at...
WHEN THOU DIDST TERRIBLE THINGS... — The latter clause, “thou camest down ...” is supposed by some critics to be an accidental repetition from Isaiah 64:1. By others it is taken as an intentional repe...
_[Isaiah 64:2]_ בַּ עֲשֹׂותְךָ֥ נֹורָאֹ֖ות לֹ֣א נְקַוֶּ֑ה...
CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...
A CRY FOR PARDON Isaiah 64:1-12 _The great past_, Isaiah 64:1-5. We are introduced to the prophet's oratory and hear the outpourings of his heart. As he recalls the story of bygone days, he asks that...
The praise and confession merge into a prayer in which the sore need of the people is first described, and then a cry full of intense anguish is lifted for the dawning of the day when Jehovah will act...
_Bear. Exodus xx. 18. Hebrew, "expect." Judas [the Machabee] appeared victorious, when the nation was prostrate._...
Here is a most fervent, animated prayer, in which the Church petitions her Lord, that by the sovereignty of his grace, and the outpouring of his Holy Spirit, he would so come forth, and come down in t...
3._Terrible things which we did not look for. _He says that the Israelites saw what they did not at all expect; for, although God had forewarned them, and had given them experience of his power in man...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65. The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace, had been so...
WHEN THOU DIDST TERRIBLE THINGS, WHICH WE LOOKED NOT FOR, THOU CAMEST DOWN,.... Referring to the wonderful things God did in Egypt, at the Red sea, and in the wilderness, and particularly at Mount Sin...
When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. Ver. 3. _When thou didst terrible things._] Or, As when thou didst &c.; as thou...
_When thou didst terrible things_ This may relate to what he did first in Egypt, and afterward in the wilderness; _which we looked not for_ Such things as we could not have expected; _the mountains fl...
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, such as the visible coming of the Lord to the final Judgment will be, THOU CAMEST DOWN, THE MOUNTAINS FLOWED DOWN AT THY PRESENCE, with an unpa...
V. 1. OH, THAT THOU WOULDEST REND THE HEAVENS, so the suppliant now begs the Lord, THAT THOU WOULDEST COME DOWN, bursting forth to execute vengeance, suddenly descending on Thy people's foes, THAT THE...
1-5 They desire that God would manifest himself to them and for them, so that all may see it. This is applicable to the second coming of Christ, when the Lord himself shall descend from heaven. They...
WHEN THOU DIDST TERRIBLE THINGS: this may relate to what he did among the Egyptians, though it be not recorded, and afterward in the wilderness. WHICH WE LOOKED NOT FOR, viz. our forefathers, of whose...
Isaiah 64:3 did H6213 (H8800) things H3372 (H8737) look H6960 (H8762) down H3381 (H8804) mountains...
ISAIAH'S HEART CRY TO YAHWEH FOR HIM TO WORK DRAMATICALLY (ISAIAH 64:1). Isaiah 64:1 ‘Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, That the mountains might flow down at your presen...
Isaiah 64:1. _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,_ Or, much better, «as when th...
CONTENTS: Fear and hope of remnant of Israel in day of vengeance. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: The remnant of Israel in the day of Christ's vengeance will bewail their sins, thereby justifyi...
Isaiah 64:1. A new scene of prophetic events opens here, where the prophet in time of trouble cries the more in spirit to the Messiah. _Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens and come down._ It is str...
_When Thou didst terrible things_ “TERRIBLE THINGS” A standing phrase for the marvels of the Exodus, the type of the great final deliverance (Deuteronomy 10:21; 2Sa Psalms 106:22). (_Prof. T. K. Ch...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 64:1 ISRAEL'S PRAYER CONTINUED AND CONCLUDED. Not content with praying God to look upon them once more with favour (Isaiah 63:15), Israel now asks for a theophany, or manifesta
Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, and that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, and makes thy...
2 Samuel 7:23; Deuteronomy 10:21; Deuteronomy 4:34; Exodus 34:10;...
Terrible things — This may relate to what he did among the Egyptians, tho' it be not recorded, and afterward in the wilderness. Looked not for — Such things as we could never expect. Mountains — Kings...