(63:19b) ¹  If only you would tear apart the sky ²  and come down! The mountains would tremble ³  before you!

The mountains trembled ¹  before the Lord, the God of Sinai; ²  before the Lord God of Israel.

For the hills bring it food, ¹  where all the wild animals play.

The earth heaved and shook; ¹  the roots of the mountains ²  trembled; ³  they heaved because he was angry.

For this reason we do not fear ¹  when the earth shakes, ²  and the mountains tumble into the depths of the sea, ³ 

Even before the mountains came into existence, ¹  or you brought the world into being, ²  you were the eternal God. ³ 

The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of the whole earth.

as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down – to the place you appointed for them. ¹ 

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, ¹  so the Lord surrounds his people, now and forevermore.

He covers ¹  the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides. ² 

All you who live in the world, who reside on the earth, you will see a signal flag raised on the mountains; you will hear a trumpet being blown.

Let the desert and its cities shout out, the towns where the nomads of Kedar live! Let the residents of Sela shout joyfully; let them shout loudly from the mountaintops.

I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; ¹  I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, ²  and dry up pools of water. ³ 

When you performed awesome deeds that took us by surprise, ¹  you came down, and the mountains trembled ²  before you.

We know our noisy worship of false gods on the hills and mountains did not help us. ¹  We know that the Lord our God is the only one who can deliver Israel. ² 

It also acted arrogantly against the Prince of the army, ¹  from whom ²  the daily sacrifice was removed and whose sanctuary ³  was thrown down.

The mountains tremble before him, ¹  the hills convulse; ²  the earth is laid waste ³  before him, the world and all its inhabitants ⁴  are laid waste. ⁵ 

When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. ¹  The great deep ²  shouts out; it lifts its hands high. ³ 

Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy ¹  is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains, ² 

For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; ¹  it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.