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If onlyלוּאyou would tear openקָרַעְתָּthe heavensשָׁמַיִםand come down,יָרַדְתָּthat the mountainsהָרִיםwould meltנָזֹלּוּbefore you,מִפָּנֶיךָ
Isaiah 64:1
Study it in the app“If only you would tear open the heavens and come down, that the mountains would melt before you,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 64:1, word by word
- If onlyלוּאlu
if only
A word that voices a strong wish that something were otherwise: «if only…».
Where else “lu” appears- you would tear openקָרַעְתָּkarata
tear away
To take something away violently, as a piece of cloth is torn off: a kingdom.
Where else “karata” appears- the heavensשָׁמַיִםshamayim
sky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appears- and come downיָרַדְתָּyaradta
come down
God comes down to see or act.
Where else “yaradta” appears- that the mountainsהָרִיםharim
mountain
A great rise of land, like Sinai or Zion.
Where else “harim” appears- would meltנָזֹלּוּnazolu
melt
To quake, dissolve, like the mountains before God.
Where else “nazolu” appears- before youפָּנֶיpane
presence
Literally "the face": being before someone, face to face.
Where else “pane” appears
Translation note
In the Hebrew, this verse is the second half of 63:19; from here on the Hebrew numbering is one number behind.
The context
1 · This verse (above)
2as fire kindles dry branches, as fire makes water boil, to make known your name to your adversaries! Before you nations will tremble.