Isaiah 64:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמֵעוֹלָ֥ם לֹא־שָׁמְע֖וּ לֹ֣א הֶאֱזִ֑ינוּ עַ֣יִן לֹֽא־רָאָ֗תָה אֱלֹהִים֙ זוּלָ֣תְךָ֔ יַעֲשֶׂ֖ה לִמְחַכֵּה־לֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

And from ʿôlām not šāmᵊʿû not heʾĕzînû ʿayin not rāʾātāh ʾĕlōhîm zûlātᵊkā yaʿăśeh for mᵊḥakkēh-to him

Grammar Details

*ʿôlām*: common masculine singular noun - eternity/ancient time
*šāmᵊʿû*: Qal perfect 3rd person plural - they heard
*heʾĕzînû*: Hiphil perfect 3rd person plural - they gave ear/listened
*ʿayin*: common feminine singular noun - eye
*rāʾātāh*: Qal perfect 3rd person feminine singular - it has seen
*ʾĕlōhîm*: common masculine plural noun - God/gods
*zûlātᵊkā*: preposition with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - besides you/except you
*yaʿăśeh*: Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he does/will do
*mᵊḥakkēh*: Piel participle masculine singular - one who waits for/hopes in

Word Meanings

*ʿôlām*: eternity/forever/ancient time
*heʾĕzînû*: they gave ear/they listened attentively/they paid attention
*ʾĕlōhîm*: God/gods (plural form with singular meaning)
*zûlātᵊkā*: besides you/except you/other than you
*mᵊḥakkēh*: one who waits for/hopes in/expects

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 66:3 : 3 Say unto God, How terrible are thy works! Through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
Ps 66:5 : 5 Come, and see the works of God; [He is] terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
Ps 106:22 : 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [And] terrible things by the Red Sea.
Isa 64:1 : 1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,
Hab 3:3 : 3 God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of his praise.
Hab 3:6 : 6 He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered; The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were [as] of old.
Ps 68:8 : 8 The earth trembled, The heavens also dropped [rain] at the presence of God: Yon Sinai [trembled] at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Ps 76:12 : 12 He will cut off the spirit of princes: He is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Ps 105:27-36 : 27 They set among them his signs, And wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they rebelled not against his words. 29 He turned their waters into blood, And slew their fish. 30 Their land swarmed with frogs In the chambers of their kings. 31 He spake, and there came swarms of flies, And lice in all their borders. 32 He gave them hail for rain, [And] flaming fire in their land. 33 He smote their vines also and their fig-trees, And brake the trees of their borders. 34 He spake, and the locust came, And the grasshopper, and that without number, 35 And did eat up every herb in their land, And did eat up the fruit of their ground. 36 He smote also all the first-born in their land, The chief of all their strength.
Exod 34:10 : 10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible thing that I do with thee.
Deut 4:34 : 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deut 10:21 : 21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
Judg 5:4-5 : 4 Jehovah, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, When thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water. 5 The mountains quaked at the presence of Jehovah, Even yon Sinai at the presence of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
2 Sam 7:23 : 23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem unto himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and terrible things for thy land, before thy people, whom thou redeemest to thee out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?
Ps 65:5-6 : 5 By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness, Oh God of our salvation, Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, And of them that are afar off upon the sea: 6 Who by his strength setteth fast the mountains, Being girded about with might;

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Isa 64:1-2
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1Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,
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Hab 3:10
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10The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, And lifted up its hands on high.
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5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
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Mic 1:3-4
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Ps 97:4-5
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4His lightnings lightened the world: The earth saw, and trembled.
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Judg 5:4-5
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Ps 66:5
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Isa 64:4
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Ps 104:32
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Ps 18:7
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Ps 66:3
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Isa 2:21
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Exod 19:18
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2 Sam 22:10
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Hab 3:5-6
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Isa 64:7
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Isa 14:16
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Ps 46:3
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Ps 65:5
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2 Sam 22:8
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Ps 46:6
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Ps 114:4
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Exod 15:7
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Hab 3:16
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Job 37:5
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Deut 4:11
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11And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
Hab 3:3
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