Verse 4

The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split open like wax before the fire, like water cascading down a slope.

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  • Nah 1:5 : 5 The mountains quake before him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, the world and all who live in it.
  • Ps 97:5 : 5 The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.
  • Isa 64:1-3 : 1 Oh, that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence— 2 As fire kindles brushwood and causes water to boil, make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations may tremble at your presence. 3 From ancient times, no ear has heard, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
  • Amos 9:5 : 5 The Lord, the God of Hosts, touches the earth and it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn. The entire land rises like the Nile and then sinks like the Nile of Egypt.
  • Judg 5:4 : 4 O Lord, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the fields of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens poured down, the clouds poured down water.
  • Hab 3:6 : 6 He stood and shook the earth; He looked and startled the nations. The ancient mountains crumbled; the everlasting hills sank low. His ways are eternal.
  • Hab 3:10 : 10 The mountains saw You and writhed. Torrents of water swept by; the deep roared and lifted its hands high.
  • Zech 14:4 : 4 On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which lies before Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a very great valley, so that half of the mountain will move northward and the other half southward.
  • 2 Pet 3:10-12 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; on that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. 11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 Looking forward to and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens, being set on fire, will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with intense heat.
  • Rev 20:11 : 11 Then I saw a great white throne and the one seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.
  • Ps 68:2 : 2 Let God arise; let His enemies be scattered, and let those who hate Him flee from His presence.