Isaiah 64:1

The people cry out for God to tear open the heavens and come down so the mountains quake at His presence. It matters because it voices the longing for God to act decisively.

Cross-references · 18

• Mic 1:3–4For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
• Mark 1:10Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
• Exod 19:18–19All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
• Rev 20:11I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
• Ps 68:8The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai — at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
• Nah 1:5–6The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
• Ps 144:5–6Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
• Hab 3:1–13A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.
• Isa 63:15Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
• Exod 3:8I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
• Amos 9:13“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.
• Judg 5:4–5“Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.
• Ps 46:6The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.
• Ps 18:7–15Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
• Ps 114:4–7The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
• 2 Pet 3:10–12But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
• Exod 19:11and be ready against the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
• Amos 9:5For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

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