Isaiah 64:1

NETBible

(63:19b) 1  If only you would tear apart the sky 2  and come down! The mountains would tremble 3  before you!

NIV ©

Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!

NASB ©

Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down, That the mountains might quake at Your presence—

NLT ©

Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down! How the mountains would quake in your presence!

MSG ©

Oh, that you would rip open the heavens and descend, make the mountains shudder at your presence--

BBE ©

O let the heavens be broken open and come down, so that the mountains may be shaking before you,

NRSV ©

O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence—

NKJV ©

Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence––

KJV
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that thou wouldest rend
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that thou wouldest come down
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that the mountains
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might flow down
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at thy presence
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NASB ©
Oh
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, that You would rend
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the heavens
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and
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down
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, That the mountains
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might quake
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at Your presence
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NET [draft] ITL
If only you would tear apart
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the sky
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and come down
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! The mountains
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would tremble
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before
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you!
HEBREW
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NETBible

(63:19b) 1  If only you would tear apart the sky 2  and come down! The mountains would tremble 3  before you!

NET Notes

1 sn In BHS the chapter division occurs in a different place from the English Bible: 64:1 ET (63:19b HT) and 64:2-12 (64:1-11 HT). Beginning with 65:1 the verse numbers in the English Bible and the Hebrew Bible are again the same.

2 tn Or “the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

3 tn Or “quake.” נָזֹלּוּ (nazollu) is from the verbal root זָלַל (zalal, “quake”; see HALOT 272 s.v. II זלל). Perhaps there is a verbal allusion to Judg 5:5, the only other passage where this verb occurs. In that passage the poet tells how the Lord’s appearance to do battle caused the mountains to shake.