Isaiah 64:3
Good News Translation
There was a time when you came and did terrifying things that we did not expect; the mountains saw you and shook with fear.

New Revised Standard Version
When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

Contemporary English Version
Your fearsome deeds have completely amazed us; even the mountains shake when you come down.

New American Bible
While you worked awesome deeds we could not hope for,

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

thou didst

Exodus 34:10 The Lord answered: I will make a covenant in the sight of all, I will do signs such as were never seen upon the earth, nor in any nations; that this people, in the midst of whom thou art, may see the terrible work of the Lord which I will do.

Deuteronomy 4:34 If God ever did so as to go, and take to himself a nation out of the midst of nations by temptations, signs, and wonders, by fight, and a strong hand, and stretched out arm, and horrible visions according to all the things that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before thy eyes.

Deuteronomy 10:21 He is thy praise, and thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thy eyes have seen.

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. . . .

2 Samuel 7:23 And what nation is there upon earth, as thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for them great and terrible things, upon the earth, before the face of thy people, whom thou redeemedst to thyself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods.

Psalm 65:6 Thou who preparest the mountains by thy strength, being girded with power:

Psalm 66:3,5 Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee. . . .

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 76:12 Even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the terrible with the kings of the earth.

Psalm 105:27-36 He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham. . . .

Psalm 106:22 Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.

the mountains

Isaiah 64:1 O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.

Habakkuk 3:3,6 God will come from the south, and the holy one from mount Pharan: His glory covered the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise. . . .

Context
A Prayer for God's Power
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. 3When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.4From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.…
Cross References
Psalm 65:5
Wonderful in justice. Hear us, O God our saviour, who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and in the sea afar off.

Psalm 66:3
Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee.

Psalm 66:5
Come and see the works of God; who is terrible in his counsels over the sons of men.

Psalm 106:22
Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.

Isaiah 5:25
Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubles, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For after this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 64:2
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