Jesaja 64:1

1 Och, dat Gij de hemelen scheurdet, dat Gij nederkwaamt, dat de bergen van Uw aangezicht vervloten;

Jesaja 64:1 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 64:1

O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, that thou wouldst
come down
Before, the church prayed that the Lord would look down from heaven and behold, ( Isaiah 63:15 ) , now that he would open the heavens, and descend from thence; not by change of place, for he fills heaven and earth with his presence; but by some visible display of his power, in destroying her enemies, and delivering her from them. Some take this to be a prayer for the first coming of Christ from heaven to earth, by his incarnation, in order to redeem and save his people; and others that it is for his second coming to judgment, to take vengeance on his adversaries, when his wrath will burn like fire; but rather it is for his spiritual coming, to avenge his church and people on antichrist, and the antichristian states. She had seen him, as a triumphant conqueror, stained with the blood of his enemies; and now she prays for the accomplishment of what she had seen in vision and prophecy: that the mountains might flow down at thy presence;
kings and princes of the earth, and kingdoms and states governed by them, compared to mountains for their seeming firmness and stability; yet these will melt like wax, and flow like water, tremble and disappear at the presence of the King of kings, when he comes forth in his great wrath against them; as it is explained in the next verse, that the nations may tremble at thy presence;
see ( Revelation 16:20 ) . Here ends the sixty third chapter in the Targum.

Jesaja 64:1 In-Context

1 Och, dat Gij de hemelen scheurdet, dat Gij nederkwaamt, dat de bergen van Uw aangezicht vervloten;

2 Gelijk een smeltvuur brandt, en het vuur de wateren doet opbobbelen, om Uw Naam aan Uw wederpartijders bekend te maken! Laat alzo de heidenen voor Uw aangezicht beven.

3 Toen Gij vreselijke dingen deedt, die wij niet verwachtten; Gij kwaamt neder, van Uw aangezicht vervloten de bergen.

4 Ja, van ouds heeft men het niet gehoord, noch met oren vernomen, en geen oog heeft het gezien, behalve Gij, o God! wat Hij doen zal dien, die op Hem wacht.

5 Gij ontmoet den vrolijke, en die gerechtigheid doet dengenen, die Uwer gedenken op Uw wegen; zie, Gij waart verbolgen, omdat wij gezondigd hebben; in dezelve is de eeuwigheid, opdat wij behouden wierden.