English Standard Version
Isaiah 64:2
2as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
Isaiah 64:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
- New International Version (NIV)As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!
- New King James Version (NKJV)As fire burns brushwood, As fire causes water to boil— To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the nations may tremble at Your presence!
- New Living Translation (NLT)As fire causes wood to burn and water to boil, your coming would make the nations tremble. Then your enemies would learn the reason for your fame!
Context of Isaiah 64:2
1Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence— as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence! 3When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. 4From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.
Read all of Isaiah 64Isaiah 64:2 word by word
כִּקְדֹ֧חַ אֵ֣שׁ הֲמָסִ֗ים מַ֚יִם תִּבְעֶה־אֵ֔שׁ לְהוֹדִ֥יעַ שִׁמְךָ֖ לְצָרֶ֑יךָ מִפָּנֶ֖יךָ גּוֹיִ֥ם יִרְגָּֽזוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- the meltingהֶ֫מֶסhâmâs · brushwoodH2003
- fireאֵשׁ'êsh · fireH784
- burnethקָדַחqâdach · to kindleH6919
- causeth the watersמַיmayim · waterH4325
- to boilבָּעָהbâ‛âh · to enquireH1158
- to make thy nameשֵׁםshêm · nameH8034
- knownיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
- to thine adversariesצַרtsar tsâr · enemyH6862
- the nationsגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
- may trembleרָגַזrâgaz · to trembleH7264
- at thy presenceפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440
Cross-references for Isaiah 64:2
- Isaiah 37:20So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord."
- Isaiah 63:12who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name,
- Exodus 14:4And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord." And they did so.
- 1 Samuel 17:46This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
- 1 Kings 8:41"Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name's sake
- Psalms 46:10"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"
- Psalms 67:1May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah
- Psalms 79:10Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
- Psalms 83:13O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
- Psalms 98:1Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
- Psalms 102:15Nations will fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
- Psalms 106:8Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power.
- Ezekiel 38:22With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
- Ezekiel 39:27when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations.
- Daniel 4:1King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you!
- Daniel 6:25Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: "Peace be multiplied to you.
Commentaries on Isaiah 64:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2As when the melting fire burneth "As the fire kindleth the dry fuel" - המסים hamasim . "It means dry stubble, and the root is המס hamas, "says Rabbi Jonah, apud Sal ben Belec in loc. Which is approved by Schultens, Orig. Hebrews p. 30. "The fire kindling the stubble does not seem like enough to the melting of the mountains to be brought as a simile to it. What if thus? - 'That the mountains might flow down at thy presence! As the fire of things smelted…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2As when the melting fire burneth - Margin, The fire of meltings.‘ Lowth renders it, As when the fire kindleth the dry fuel.‘ So Noyes, As fire kindleth the dry stubble.‘ The Septuagint render it: ̔ ̀ ̓̀ ́ ̀ ́ Hōs kēros apo prosōpou puros tēketai - As wax is melted before the fire.‘ So the Syriac renders it. The Hebrew word rendered here in the margin meltings‘ (המסים hămâsı̂ym ), properly means, according to Gesenius, brushwood, twigs. So Saddias…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-12The prophet’s reflections on the past (Isaiah 63:7–14) inspire him to pray that God would now rescue his people as he has done before.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. Oh, that Thy wrath would consume Thy foes as the fire. Rather, "as the fire burneth the dry brushwood" [Gesenius].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 64
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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