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Isaiah 64:3

Isaiah 64:3
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 64:1-5

Here, I. The petition is that God would appear wonderfully for them now, Isa 64:1, Isa 64:2. Their case was represented in the close of the foregoing chapter as very sad and very hard, and in this…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The second part of the verse, being (in the original) verbally repeated from Isa 64:64, ought probably to be omitted as a copyist's error. The passage gains in compactness by its excision. Isa 64:1-3…