| Prophecies about the mountains |
| Creation of mountains |
Proverbs 8:22-26
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of
old.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth
was.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no
fountains abounding with water.
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest
part of the dust of the world.
Amos 4:13
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and
declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning
darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The
God of hosts, is his name.
Isaiah 40:12
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out
heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a
measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a
balance? |
| Durability of mountains |
Genesis 49:26
The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my
progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall
be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was
separate from his brethren.
Psalm 87:1
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
Psalm 125:2
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about
his people from henceforth even for ever. |
| A mountain that cannot be moved |
Psalm 125:1
They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be
removed, but abideth for ever. |
| Stability of mountains |
Psalm 36:6
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a
great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the
earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
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| Christ comes upon the mountains |
Psalm 121:1
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
Song of Solomon 2:8
The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains,
skipping upon the hills. |
| Mountains are an inheritance |
Exodus 15:17
Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine
inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to
dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have established.
Joshua 14:12
Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that
day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that
the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me,
then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
Isaiah 57:13
When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall
carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his
trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
Isaiah 65:9
And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an
inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my
servants shall dwell there. |
| The gospel is proclaimed upon the
mountains |
Isaiah 40:9
O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain;
O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with
strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah,
Behold your God!
Isaiah 52:7
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good
tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good,
that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Nahum 1:15
Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings,
that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy
vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut
off. |
| Mountains represent blessings |
Genesis 49:26
The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my
progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall
be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was
separate from his brethren. |
| Mountains will sing |
Isaiah 44:23
Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of
the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every
tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself
in Israel.
Isaiah 49:13
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing,
O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have
mercy upon his afflicted.
Isaiah 55:12
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the
mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and
all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. |
| Mountains will drop wine |
Isaiah 25:6
And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a
feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full
of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Joel 3:18
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop
down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers
of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of
the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
Amos 9:13
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake
the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the
mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. |
| Mountains will be threshed |
Isaiah 41:15
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth:
thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make
the hills as chaff. |
| An ensign will be lifted up upon the
mountains |
Isaiah 18:3
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye,
when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a
trumpet, hear ye. |
| A way in the mountains |
Isaiah 49:11
And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be
exalted. |
| A mountain will become a plain |
Isaiah 40:4
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be
made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places
plain:
Zechariah 4:7
Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a
plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings,
crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Luke 3:5
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be
brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways
shall be made smooth; |
| Mountains moved out of place |
Psalm 114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
Psalm 46:2
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the
mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
Jeremiah 4:24
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved
lightly.
Habakkuk 3:6
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the
nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual
hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Zechariah 14:4
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is
before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in
the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall
be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward
the north, and half of it toward the south.
Matthew 21:21
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have
faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the
fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed,
and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
Revelation 6:14
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and
every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Revelation 16:20
And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. |
| Mount Zion and Jerusalem raised up |
Isaiah 2:1-2
The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the
LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and
shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
Zechariah 14:10
All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of
Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from
Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate,
and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses. |
| Men hide in the dens of the mountains |
Hosea 10:8
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed:
the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall
say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
Luke 23:30
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the
hills, Cover us.
Revelation 6:15-16
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and
the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every
free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the
face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
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| Mountains smoke |
Psalm 144:5
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they
shall smoke. |
| Mountains melt |
Isaiah 64:3
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest
down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned
at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Micah 1:4
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be
cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a
steep place. |
| Mountains an infamy of the people |
Jeremiah 9:10
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the
habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned
up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice
of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled;
they are gone.
Ezekiel 36:3-6
Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have
made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be
a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in
the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus
saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers,
and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are
forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the
heathen that are round about;
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy
have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all
Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy
of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the
mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my
fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen: |
| Rivers of water will flow upon mountains |
Isaiah 30:25
And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill,
rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when
the towers fall. |
| Mountains and conflict |
Isaiah 31:4
For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young
lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth
against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself
for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight
for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
Isaiah 34:3
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out
of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
Isaiah 42:15
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and
I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
Ezekiel 6:3
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus
saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers,
and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and
I will destroy your high places.
Ezekiel 35:8
And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in
thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with
the sword.
Ezekiel 38:8
After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt
come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered
out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been
always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they
shall dwell safely all of them.
Ezekiel 38:21
And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains,
saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
Ezekiel 39:4
Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,
and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous
birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
Ezekiel 39:17
And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every
feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves,
and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do
sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel,
that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
Daniel 11:45
And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in
the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none
shall help him.
Joel 2:1
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain:
let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD
cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
Micah 6:2
Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and ye strong foundations
of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he
will plead with Israel. |