Yesaya 64:1

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Hendaklah kiranya Engkau membelahkan segala langit dan Engkau turun dan segala bukitpun hancur meleleh di hadapan hadirat-Mu,

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Sekiranya Engkau mengoyakkan langit dan Engkau turun, sehingga gunung-gunung goyang di hadapan-Mu

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Sekiranya Engkau mengoyakkan langit dan Engkau turun, sehingga gunung-gunung goyang di hadapan-Mu

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Oh that: Psalms 18:7-15, Psalms 144:5, Psalms 144:6, Mark 1:10, *marg.

that thou wouldest come: Isaiah 63:15, Exodus 3:8, Exodus 19:11, Exodus 19:18, Exodus 19:19, Micah 1:3, Micah 1:4, Habakkuk 3:1-13

that the: Judges 5:4, Judges 5:5, Psalms 46:6, Psalms 68:8, Psalms 114:4-7, Amos 9:5, Amos 9:13, Nahum 1:5, Nahum 1:6, 2 Peter 3:10-12, Revelation 20:11

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:10 - bowed 1 Kings 8:33 - pray Nehemiah 4:14 - great Nehemiah 9:13 - camest Job 14:18 - the mountain Psalms 14:2 - The Lord Psalms 83:14 - As the fire Psalms 84:2 - heart Psalms 97:5 - hills Psalms 104:32 - he toucheth Psalms 114:7 - Tremble Psalms 148:9 - Mountains Song of Solomon 4:16 - Awake Isaiah 10:17 - for a flame Isaiah 25:5 - shalt bring Isaiah 64:3 - the mountains Lamentations 3:50 - General Habakkuk 3:2 - O Lord Habakkuk 3:6 - the everlasting Habakkuk 3:10 - mountains Zechariah 4:7 - O great Zechariah 14:4 - cleave Zechariah 14:5 - the Lord Acts 7:34 - and am 2 Peter 3:12 - melt

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, that thou wouldst come down,.... Before, the church prayed that the Lord would look down from heaven and behold, Isaiah 63:15, now that he would open the heavens, and descend from thence; not by change of place, for he fills heaven and earth with his presence; but by some visible display of his power, in destroying her enemies, and delivering her from them. Some take this to be a prayer for the first coming of Christ from heaven to earth, by his incarnation, in order to redeem and save his people; and others that it is for his second coming to judgment, to take vengeance on his adversaries, when his wrath will burn like fire; but rather it is for his spiritual coming, to avenge his church and people on antichrist, and the antichristian states. She had seen him, as a triumphant conqueror, stained with the blood of his enemies; and now she prays for the accomplishment of what she had seen in vision and prophecy:

that the mountains might flow down at thy presence; kings and princes of the earth, and kingdoms and states governed by them, compared to mountains for their seeming firmness and stability; yet these will melt like wax, and flow like water, tremble and disappear at the presence of the King of kings, when he comes forth in his great wrath against them; as it is explained in the next verse,

that the nations may tremble at thy presence; see Revelation 16:20. Here ends the sixty third chapter in the Targum.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens - That is, in view of the considerations urged in the previous chapter. In view of the fact that the temple is burned up Isaiah 64:11; that the city is desolate; that the land lies waste, and that thine own people are carried captive to a distant land. The phrase ‘rend the heavens,’ implies a sudden and sublime descent of Yahweh to execute vengeance on his foes, as if his heart was full of vengeance, and the firmament were violently rent asunder at his sudden appearance. It is language properly expressive of a purpose to execute wrath on his foes, rather than to confer blessings on his people. The latter is more appropriately expressed by the heavens being gently opened to make way for the descending blessings. The word rendered here ‘rend’ (קרע qâra‛), means properly to tear asunder, as, e. g., the garments in grief Gen 37:29; 2 Samuel 13:31; or as a wild beast does the breast of anyone Hosea 13:8. The Septuagint, however, render it by a milder word - ἀνοίξης anoixēs - ‘If thou wouldst open the heavens,’ etc. So the Syriac renders it by ‘O that thou wouldst open,’ using a word that is usually applied to the opening of a door. God is often represented as coming down from heaven in a sublime manner amidst tempests, fire, and storms, to take vengeance on his foes. Thus Psalms 18:9 :

He bowed the heavens also and came down;

And darkness was under his feet.

Compare Habakkuk 3:5-6. It should be remembered that the main idea in the passage before us is that of Yahweh coming down to destroy his foes. His people entreat him to descend with the proofs of his indignation, so that every obstacle shall be destroyed before him, Thus he is described in Psalms 144:5-6 :

Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down;

Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke;

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them,

Shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

That the mountains might flow down at thy presence - The idea here is, that the presence of Yahweh would be like an intense burning heat, so that the mountains would melt and flow away. It is a most sublime description of his majesty, and is one that is several times employed in the Bible. Thus in relation to his appearance on Mount Sinai, in the song of Deborah Judges 5:4-5 :

The earth trembled and the heavens dropped,

The clouds also dropped water.

The mountains melted from before Yahweh,

Even Sinai from before Yahweh, the God of Israel.

So Psalms 97:5 :

The hills melted like wax at the presence of Yahweh,

At the presence of Yahweh (the God) of the whole earth.

So also in Micah 1:3-4 :

Lo, Yahweh cometh forth out of his place,

And will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth

And the mountains shall be molten under him.

And the valleys shall be cleft,

As wax before the fire,

And as the waters pour down a precipice.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER LXIV

The whole of this chapter, which is very pathetic and tender,

may be considered as a formulary of prayer and humiliation

intended for the Jews in order to their conversion, 1-12.

NOTES ON CHAP. LXIV

Verse Isaiah 64:1. O that thou wouldest rend the heavens - This seems to allude to the wonderful manifestation of God upon Mount Sinai.