Isaiah 64:2 - Revised Standard Version CI

² as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make thy name known to thy adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at thy presence!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² 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!

American Standard Version (1901)

² as when fire kindleth the brushwood, and the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

Common English Bible

² like fire igniting brushwood or making water boil. If you would make your name known to your enemies, the nations would tremble in your presence.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² They would melt, as if thoroughly burned by fire. The waters would burn with fire, so that your name might be made known to your enemies, so that the nations would be stirred up before your face.

Isaiah 64:2 Cross References

Psalm 106:8

Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power.

Psalm 46:10

“Be still, and know that I am God. I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth!”

Psalm 79:10

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of thy servants be known among the nations before our eyes!

Psalm 83:13

O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

Psalm 9:20

Put them in fear, O Lord! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah

Psalm 99:1

The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!

Exodus 14:4

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.

Isaiah 28:21

For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; to do his deed—strange is his deed! and to work his work—alien is his work!

Isaiah 37:20

So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou alone art the Lord.”

Isaiah 63:12

who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name,

Jeremiah 33:9

And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them; they shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.

Jeremiah 5:22

Do you not fear me? says the Lord; Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the bound for the sea, a perpetual barrier which it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail, though they roar, they cannot pass over it.

Amos 4:12

“Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

Micah 1:4

And the mountains will melt under him and the valleys will be cleft, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.

Zechariah 14:4

On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives which lies before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley; so that one half of the Mount shall withdraw northward, and the other half southward.

Deuteronomy 2:25

This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.’