Isaiah 64:1
Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence—This verse in the real world
In what words
- זָלַלzâlalto shake (as in the wind), i.e. to quake; figuratively, to be loose morally, worthless or
- לוּאlûwʼa conditional particle; if; by implication (interj. as a wish) would that!
- קָרַעqâraʻto rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)
- יָרַדyâradto descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore,
- שָׁמַיִםshâmayimthe sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move,
- הַרhara mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
Cross-references
Mic 1:3–4, Mrk 1:10, Rev 20:11, Exo 19:18–19, Psa 144:5–6, Nam 1:5–6, Psa 68:8, Hab 3:1–13