Isaiah 64:3 “When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and…”

Isaiah 64:3

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.

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Cross references

“thou didst”

Exodus 34:10 Deuteronomy 10:21 Psalm 66:3 Psalm 66:5 Psalm 106:22 Deuteronomy 4:34

Exodus 34:10 · BSB

And 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…

Deuteronomy 10:21 · BSB

He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.

Psalm 66:3 · BSB

Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.

Psalm 66:5 · BSB

Come and see the works of God; how awesome are His deeds toward mankind.

Psalm 106:22 · BSB

wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

Deuteronomy 4:34 · BSB

Or 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…

“the mountains”

Habakkuk 3:3 Isaiah 64:1 Habakkuk 3:6

Habakkuk 3:3 · BSB

God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.

Isaiah 64:1 · BSB

If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

Habakkuk 3:6 · BSB

He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.

Also

Psalm 65:5–6

Psalm 65:5–6 · BSB

With 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!

4From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

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