Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
When thou did fearful things which we did not look for, thou came down; the mountains quaked at thy presence.
New American Standard Bible
You came down, the mountains quaked at Your presence.
King James Version
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Holman Bible
that we did not expect,
You came down,
and the mountains quaked at Your presence.
International Standard Version
When you did awesome deeds that we expected, you came down, and the mountains shuddered before you.
American Standard Version
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.
Amplified
When You did awesome and amazing things which we did not expect,
You came down [at Sinai]; the mountains quaked at Your presence.
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.
Darby Translation
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, and the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Julia Smith Translation
In thy doing wonderful things we shall not expect, thou camest down, the mountains flowed from before thee.
King James 2000
When you did terrible things which we looked not for, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence.
Lexham Expanded Bible
When you did terrible deeds [which] we did not {expect}, you came down; [the] mountains quaked because of your {presence}.
Modern King James verseion
When You did dreadful things which we did not look for, You came down, the mountains flowed down at Your presence.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When thou wroughtest wondrous strange works, we looked not for them: thou camest down and the hills melted at thy presence.
NET Bible
When you performed awesome deeds that took us by surprise, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.
New Heart English Bible
When you did awesome things which we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
The Emphasized Bible
When thou didst fearful things we could not expect, Thou earnest down at thy presence, mountains, quaked.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
In Thy doing fearful things -- we expect not, Thou didst come down, From Thy presence did mountains flow.
Interlinear
Yare'
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 64:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Mercy
2 as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! 3 When thou did fearful things which we did not look for, thou came down; the mountains quaked at thy presence. 4 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, besides thee, [what] he has prepared for him who waits for him.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 66:3
Say to God, How awesome are thy works! Through the greatness of thy power thine enemies shall submit themselves to thee.
Psalm 66:5
Come, and see the works of God, awesome in actions toward the sons of men.
Psalm 106:22
wondrous works in the land of Ham, [and] fearful things by the Red Sea.
Exodus 34:10
And he said, Behold, I make a covenant. Before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation, and all the people among which thou are shall see the work of LORD, for it is an aw
Deuteronomy 4:34
Or has God assayed to go and take for him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that L
Deuteronomy 10:21
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, who has done for thee these great and awesome things, which thine eyes have seen.
Judges 5:4-5
LORD, when thou went forth out of Seir, when thou marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water.
2 Samuel 7:23
And what one nation on the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for thy land, before thy people whom
Psalm 65:5-6
By awesome things thou will answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation, thou who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of those who are afar off upon the sea,
Psalm 68:8
the earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God, Sinai at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Psalm 76:12
He will cut off the spirit of rulers. He is fearful to the kings of the earth.
Psalm 105:27-36
They set among them his signs and wonders in the land of Ham.
Isaiah 64:1
Oh that thou would rend the heavens, that thou would come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,
Habakkuk 3:3
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
Habakkuk 3:6
He stood, and measured the earth. He beheld, and drove apart the nations. And the eternal mountains were scattered. The everlasting hills bowed. His goings were [as] of old.