| Geneva Study Bible When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. Wesley's Notes 64:3 Terrible things - This may relate to what he did among the Egyptians, tho' it be not recorded, and afterward in the wilderness. Looked not for - Such things as we could never expect. Mountains - Kings, princes, and potentates, may metaphorically be understood by these mountains. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 3. When-Supply from Isa 64:2, "As when." terrible things-(Ps 65:5). we looked not for-far exceeding the expectation of any of our nation; unparalleled before (Ex 34:10; Ps 68:8). camest down-on Mount Sinai. mountains flowed-Repeated from Isa 64:1; they pray God to do the very same things for Israel now as in former ages. Gesenius, instead of "flowed" here, and "flow" in Isa 64:1, translates from a different Hebrew root, "quake . quaked"; but "fire" melts and causes to flow, rather than to quake (Isa 64:2). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 64:1-5 They desire that God would manifest himself to them and for them, so that all may see it. This is applicable to the second coming of Christ, when the Lord himself shall descend from heaven. They plead what God had used to do, and had declared his gracious purpose to do, for his people. They need not fear being disappointed of it, for it is sure; or disappointed in it, for it is sufficient. The happiness of his people is bound up in what God has designed for them, and is preparing for them, and preparing them for; what he has done or will do. Can we believe this, and then think any thing too great to expect from his truth, power, and love? It is spiritual and cannot be comprehended by human understanding. It is ever ready. See what communion there is between a gracious God and a gracious soul. We must make conscience of doing our duty in every thing the Lord our God requires. Thou meetest him; this speaks his freeness and forwardness in doing them good. Though God has been angry with us for our sins, and justly, yet his anger has soon ended; but in his favour is life, which goes on and continues, and on that we depend for our salvation. | 
