Isaiah 64:3
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
When you did terrible things which we looked not for, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence.
American King James Version (AKJV)
When you did terrible things which we looked not for, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence.
American Standard Version (ASV)
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
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.
Webster's Revision
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, the mountains quaked at your presence.
English Revised Version (ERV)
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Barnes's Isaiah 64:3 Bible Commentary
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).
Wesley's Isaiah 64:3 Bible Commentary
64:3 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, princes, and potentates, may metaphorically be understood by these mountains.
