Parallel Verses New International Version 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! King James Bible 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! Darby Bible Translation -- as fire kindleth brushwood, as the fire causeth water to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at thy presence! World English Bible as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! Young's Literal Translation (As fire kindleth stubble -- Fire causeth water to boil,) To make known Thy name to Thine adversaries, From Thy presence do nations tremble. Isaiah 64:2 Parallel Commentary Clarke's Commentary on the BibleAs 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 burneth, As the fire causeth the waters to boil - ' There is no doubt of the Hebrew words of the second line bearing that version." - Dr. Jubb. I submit these different interpretations to the reader's judgment. For my own part I am inclined to think that the text is much corrupted in this place. The ancient Versions have not the least traces of either of the above interpretations. The Septuagint and Syriac agree exactly together in rendering this line by, "As the wax melted before the fire," which can by no means be reconciled with the present text. The Vulgate, for המסים hamasim, read ימסו yemasu. That the nations - For גוים goyim, the nations, four MSS. (one of them ancient) have הרים harim, the mountains. - L. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge melting fire. Heb. fire of meltings. to make Psalm 67:1,2 God be merciful to us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine on us; Selah... Psalm 79:10 Why should the heathen say, Where is their God?... Psalm 83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. that the nations Psalm 9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah. Psalm 48:4-6 For, see, the kings were assembled, they passed by together... Jeremiah 5:22 Fear you not me? said the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence... Library How to Meet God'Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember Thee in Thy ways.'--ISAIAH lxiv. 5. The prophet here shows us how there is a great staircase which we ourselves build, which leads straight from earth to heaven, and how we can secure that we shall meet with God and God with us. 'Isaiah' is often called the evangelical prophet. He is so, not only because of his predictions of the suffering Servant of Jehovah which are 'fulfilled' in Christ, but because his conceptions … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture 1872 the Need of a Home Further West --Burning of the Marchmont Home --Home Restored by Canadian Gifts --Miss Macpherson and Miss Reavell Arrive in Canada The Disciple, -- Master, if Thou Wouldst Make a Special Manifestation of Thyself to The... Question Lxxxiii of Prayer Cross References Psalm 99:1 The LORD reigns, let the nations tremble; he sits enthroned between the cherubim, let the earth shake. Jeremiah 5:22 Should you not fear me?" declares the LORD. "Should you not tremble in my presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it. Jeremiah 33:9 Then this city will bring me renown, joy, praise and honor before all nations on earth that hear of all the good things I do for it; and they will be in awe and will tremble at the abundant prosperity and peace I provide for it.' Amos 4:12 "Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God." Micah 1:4 The mountains melt beneath him and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope. 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