(As fire kindleth stubble -- Fire causeth water to boil,) To make known Thy name to Thine adversaries, From Thy presence do nations tremble.Isaiah 64:2 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleAs when the melting fire burneth "As the fire kindleth the dry fuel" - המסים hamasim. "It means dry stubble, and the root is המס hamas, "says Rabbi Jonah, apud Sal ben Belec in loc. Which is approved by Schultens, Orig. Hebrews p. 30.
"The fire kindling the stubble does not seem like enough to the melting of the mountains to be brought as a simile to it. What if thus? -
'That the mountains might flow down at thy presence!
As the fire of things smelted burneth,
As the fire causeth the waters to boil - '
There is no doubt of the Hebrew words of the second line bearing that version." - Dr. Jubb.
I submit these different interpretations to the reader's judgment. For my own part I am inclined to think that the text is much corrupted in this place. The ancient Versions have not the least traces of either of the above interpretations. The Septuagint and Syriac agree exactly together in rendering this line by, "As the wax melted before the fire," which can by no means be reconciled with the present text. The Vulgate, for המסים hamasim, read ימסו yemasu.
That the nations - For גוים goyim, the nations, four MSS. (one of them ancient) have הרים harim, the mountains. - L.
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melting fire. Heb. fire of meltings. to make
Isaiah 37:20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the LORD, even you only.
Isaiah 63:12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
Exodus 14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honored on Pharaoh, and on all his host...
1 Samuel 17:46,47 This day will the LORD deliver you into my hand; and I will smite you, and take your head from you...
1 Kings 8:41-43 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of your people Israel, but comes out of a far country for your name's sake...
Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Psalm 67:1,2 God be merciful to us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine on us; Selah...
Psalm 79:10 Why should the heathen say, Where is their God?...
Psalm 83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
Psalm 98:1,2 O sing to the LORD a new song; for he has done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, has gotten him the victory...
Psalm 102:15,16 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth your glory...
Psalm 106:8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
Ezekiel 38:22,23 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain on him, and on his bands...
Ezekiel 39:27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands...
Daniel 4:1-3,32-37 Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied to you...
Daniel 6:25-27 Then king Darius wrote to all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied to you...
Joel 3:16,17 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake...
that the nations
Exodus 15:14-16 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina...
Deuteronomy 2:25 This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the nations that are under the whole heaven...
Psalm 9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
Psalm 48:4-6 For, see, the kings were assembled, they passed by together...
Psalm 99:1 The LORD reigns; let the people tremble: he sits between the cherubim; let the earth be moved.
Jeremiah 5:22 Fear you not me? said the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence...
Jeremiah 33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth...
Micah 7:15-17 According to the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt will I show to him marvelous things...
Revelation 11:11-13 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet...
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