Isaiah 64:1
Good News Translation
Why don't you tear the sky open and come down? The mountains would see you and shake with fear.

New Revised Standard Version
O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence—

Contemporary English Version
Rip the heavens apart! Come down, LORD; make the mountains tremble.

New American Bible
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, with the mountains quaking before you,

Douay-Rheims Bible
O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.

oh that

Psalm 18:7-15 The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them. . . .

Psalm 144:5,6 Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. . . .

Mark 1:10 And forthwith coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens open and the Spirit as a dove descending and remaining on him.

that thou wouldest come

Isaiah 63:15 Look down from heaven, and behold from thy holy habitation and the place of thy glory: where is thy zeal, and thy strength, the multitude of thy bowels, and of thy mercies? they have held back themselves from me.

Exodus 3:8 And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.

Exodus 19:11,18,19 And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount Sinai. . . .

Micah 1:3,4 Hear, all ye people: and let the earth give ear, and all that is therein: and let the Lord God be a witness to you, the Lord from his holy temple. . . .

Habakkuk 3:1-13 A PRAYER OF Habakkuk THE PROPHET FOR IGNORANCES. . . .

that the

Judges 5:4,5 O Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, and passedst by the regions of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens and clouds dropped water. . . .

Psalm 46:6 Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered his voice, the earth trembled.

Psalm 68:8 The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.

Psalm 114:4-7 The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock. . . .

Amos 9:5,13 And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall kill them. And I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good. . . .

Nahum 1:5,6 The mountains tremble at him, and the hills are made desolate: and the earth hath quaked at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein. . . .

2 Peter 3:10-12 But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be melted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up. . . .

Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne and one sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away: and there was no place found for them

Context
A Prayer for God's Power
1O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.2They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the nations might tremble at thy presence.…
Cross References
Exodus 19:18
And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.

Judges 5:5
The mountains melted before the face of the Lord, and Sinai before the face of the Lord the God of Israel.

Psalm 18:9
He bowed the heavens, and came down, and darkness was under his feet.

Psalm 68:8
The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.

Psalm 144:5
Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Isaiah 41:15
I have made thee as a new thrashing wain, with teeth like a saw: thou shalt thrash the mountains, and break them in pieces: and shalt make the hills as chaff.

Isaiah 63:19
We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, and when we were not called by thy name.

Amos 9:5
And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall kill them. And I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

Micah 1:3
Hear, all ye people: and let the earth give ear, and all that is therein: and let the Lord God be a witness to you, the Lord from his holy temple.

Micah 1:4
For behold the Lord will come forth out of his place: and he will come down, and will tread upon the high places of the earth.

Nahum 1:5
The mountains tremble at him, and the hills are made desolate: and the earth hath quaked at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein.

Habakkuk 3:13
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people: for salvation with thy Christ. Thou struckest the head of the house of the wicked: thou hast laid bare his foundation even to the neck.

Zechariah 14:4
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is over against Jerusalem towards the east: and the mount of Olives shall be divided in the midst thereof to the east, and to the west with a very great opening, and half of the mountain shall be separated to the north, and half thereof to the south.

Isaiah 63:19
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