Isaiah 64:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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 99:1

The LORD reigneth; let the peoples tremble: He sitteth upon the cherubim; let the earth be moved.

Jeremiah 33:9

And this city shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure unto it.

Jeremiah 5:22

Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.

Isaiah 37:20

Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.

Psalm 46:10

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

Exodus 14:4

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he shall follow after them; and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD. And they did so.

Isaiah 63:12

that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

Psalm 106:8

Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, That he might make his mighty power to be known.

Psalm 83:13

O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.

Psalm 79:10

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? Let the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed Be known among the heathen in our sight.

Psalm 9:20

Put them in fear, O LORD: Let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah

Deuteronomy 2:25

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

Amos 4:12

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

Micah 1:4

And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

Zechariah 14:4

And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

Isaiah 28:21

For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.