“When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.”
The community recalls that when YHWH did awesome deeds the people did not expect, they came down and mountains quaked, indicating historical precedent of dramatic divine intervention. The recollection of past theophanic experiences establishes that such intervention is within YHWH's historical pattern. The emphasis that these occurred despite no expectation suggests surprising, gracious divine action. The memory of past intervention becomes the grounds for hoping for contemporary repetition. This verse uses historical memory to argue for future possibility.
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