(A)Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down!
    (B)Touch the mountains so that they smoke!

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Part your heavens,(A) Lord, and come down;(B)
    touch the mountains, so that they smoke.(C)

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32 who looks on the earth and it (A)trembles,
    who (B)touches the mountains and they smoke!

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32 he who looks at the earth, and it trembles,(A)
    who touches the mountains,(B) and they smoke.(C)

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He (A)bowed the heavens and (B)came down;
    (C)thick darkness was under his feet.

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He parted the heavens and came down;(A)
    dark clouds(B) were under his feet.

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God came from (A)Teman,
    (B)and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah
His splendor covered the heavens,
    and the earth was full of his praise.
(C)His brightness was like the light;
    rays flashed from his hand;
    and there he veiled his power.
(D)Before him went pestilence,
    and plague followed (E)at his heels.[a]
He stood (F)and measured the earth;
    he looked and shook the nations;
then the (G)eternal mountains (H)were scattered;
    the everlasting hills sank low.
    His were (I)the everlasting ways.

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  1. Habakkuk 3:5 Hebrew feet

God came from Teman,(A)
    the Holy One(B) from Mount Paran.[a](C)
His glory covered the heavens(D)
    and his praise filled the earth.(E)
His splendor was like the sunrise;(F)
    rays flashed from his hand,
    where his power(G) was hidden.
Plague(H) went before him;
    pestilence followed his steps.
He stood, and shook the earth;
    he looked, and made the nations tremble.
The ancient mountains crumbled(I)
    and the age-old hills(J) collapsed(K)
    but he marches on forever.(L)

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  1. Habakkuk 3:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the middle of verse 9 and at the end of verse 13.

18 Now (A)Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and (B)the whole mountain trembled greatly.

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18 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke,(A) because the Lord descended on it in fire.(B) The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace,(C) and the whole mountain[a] trembled(D) violently.

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  1. Exodus 19:18 Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint and all the people

A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken

18 For you have not come to (A)what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest

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The Mountain of Fear and the Mountain of Joy

18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm;(A)

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(A)The Lord is slow to anger and (B)great in power,
    and (C)the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
(D)His way is in whirlwind and storm,
    and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
(E)He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;
    he dries up all the rivers;
(F)Bashan and (G)Carmel wither;
    the bloom of (H)Lebanon withers.
(I)The mountains quake before him;
    (J)the hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
    (K)the world and all who dwell in it.

(L)Who can stand before his indignation?
    Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath (M)is poured out like fire,
    and (N)the rocks are broken into pieces by him.

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The Lord is slow to anger(A) but great in power;
    the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished.(B)
His way is in the whirlwind(C) and the storm,(D)
    and clouds(E) are the dust of his feet.
He rebukes(F) the sea and dries it up;(G)
    he makes all the rivers run dry.
Bashan and Carmel(H) wither
    and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.
The mountains quake(I) before him
    and the hills melt away.(J)
The earth trembles(K) at his presence,
    the world and all who live in it.(L)
Who can withstand(M) his indignation?
    Who can endure(N) his fierce anger?(O)
His wrath is poured out like fire;(P)
    the rocks are shattered(Q) before him.

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64 (A)Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
    (B)that the mountains might quake at your presence—
[a] as when fire kindles brushwood
    and the fire causes water to boil—
(C)to make your name known to your adversaries,
    and that the nations might tremble at your presence!

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  1. Isaiah 64:2 Ch 64:1 in Hebrew

64 [a]Oh, that you would rend the heavens(A) and come down,(B)
    that the mountains(C) would tremble before you!
As when fire sets twigs ablaze
    and causes water to boil,
come down to make your name(D) known to your enemies
    and cause the nations to quake(E) before you!

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  1. Isaiah 64:1 In Hebrew texts 64:1 is numbered 63:19b, and 64:2-12 is numbered 64:1-11.