Isaiah 64:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down 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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Referenced Verses

Ps 66:3 : 3 Say{H8798)} unto God, How terrible{H8737)} art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies{H8802)} submit{H8762)} themselves unto thee.
Ps 66:5 : 5 Come{H8798)} and see{H8798)} the works of God: he is terrible{H8737)} 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 flow down 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 everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Ps 68:8 : 8 The earth shook{H8804)}, the heavens also dropped{H8804)} at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Ps 76:12 : 12 He shall cut off{H8799)} the spirit of princes: he is terrible{H8737)} to the kings of the earth.
Ps 105:27-36 : 27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word. 29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. 30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings. 31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts. 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 coasts. 34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number, 35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. 36 He smote also all the firstborn 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 done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will 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 temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD 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 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. 5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD 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 for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
Ps 65:5-6 : 5 By terrible things{H8737)} in righteousness wilt thou answer{H8799)} us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea: 6 Which by his strength setteth fast{H8688)} the mountains; being girded{H8737)} with power:

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