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When you didבַּעֲשׂוֹתְךָfearsome thingsנוֹרָאוֹתthat we did notלֹאwait for,נְקַוֶּהyou came down;יָרַדְתָּbefore youמִפָּנֶיךָthe mountainsהָרִיםmelted.נָזֹלּוּ
Isaiah 64:3
Study it in the app“When you did fearsome things that we did not wait for, you came down; before you the mountains melted.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 64:3, word by word
- When you didעֲשׂוֹתְasot
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asot” appears- fearsome thingsנוֹרָאוֹתnoraot
be fearsome
To be so great or powerful that one inspires awe and respect.
Where else “noraot” appears- wait forנְקַוֶּהnekave
wait
To long and look for, above all YHWH.
Where else “nekave” appears- you came downיָרַדְתָּyaradta
come down
God comes down to see or act.
Where else “yaradta” appears- before youפָּנֶיpane
presence
Literally "the face": being before someone, face to face.
Where else “pane” appears- the mountainsהָרִיםharim
mountain
A great rise of land, like Sinai or Zion.
Where else “harim” appears- meltedנָזֹלּוּnazolu
melt
To quake, dissolve, like the mountains before God.
Where else “nazolu” appears
The context
2as fire kindles dry branches, as fire makes water boil, to make known your name to your adversaries! Before you nations will tremble.
3 · This verse (above)
4And from of old they have not heard, they have not listened; no eye has seen an Elohim besides you who acts for the one who awaits him.