Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,
    that the mountains would tremble before you!
2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze
    and causes water to boil,
come down to make your name known to your enemies
    and cause the nations to quake before you!
3 For when you did awesome things that we did not expect,
    you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.

We are reminded today that our God is ”able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine” (Eph.3:20). Isaiah is not asking God to do something He hasn’t done before. On the contrary, He appeals on the basis of the Lord’s ‘track-record.’ When did He do something like this before? Why, at the ‘exodus’ is the answer. Isaiah is saying, ‘You’ve done it before Lord; please do it again.’

Warren Wiersbe comments: ‘Demonstrations of divine power are easily found in history books but not readily found among God’s people today. Why? (‘With the Word’, p.491)