Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 89:9
Giving commands and setting bounds to its waves when they are most impetuous and unruly.
Giving commands and setting bounds to its waves when they are most impetuous and unruly.
Verse Psalms 89:9. _THOU RULEST THE RAGING OF THE SEA_] Whoever has seen the sea in a storm, when its waves run what is called _mountain high_, must acknowledge that nothing but omnipotent power could...
THOU RULEST THE RAGING OF THE SEA - The pride; the anger; the lifting up of the sea. That is, when the sea is raging and boisterous; when it seems as if everything would be swept away before it, thou...
Psalms 89 God's Faithfulness: His Oath-bound Covenant with David _ 1. Jehovah's faithfulness (Psalms 89:1)_ 2. His covenant with David (Psalms 89:19) 3. The ruin and desolation ...
LXXXIX. THE COVENANT WITH DAVID. The Ps. may be divided thus: Psalms 89:1. The promise made to David (2 Samuel 7). Yahweh is all-powerful, so that He can, faithful so that He will, fulfil His word. Ps...
The adoring recital of God's attributes which follows here has a twofold purpose in relation to the subject of the Psalm. It is a plea with God, and it is an encouragement to Israel. His omnipotence g...
Jehovah's incomparableness is manifested in nature and in history....
In this and the following verses thou, thine are the emphatic words. _the raging_ Or, proud swelling. Cp. Psalms 46:3. The sea represents the most turbulent and formidable of the powers of nature. Cp....
PSALMS 89 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Covenant with David Contrasted with the Present Dishonour of David's Heir. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 89:1-2, The Keynotes of the psalmJehovah's Kindness and Faithfu...
And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. -Inasmuch as the value of a promise depends on the power and the faithfulness of the promi...
89:9 pride (k-4) Or 'fury.'...
We have here another national and historical Ps., written when the Jewish kingdom and its king had fallen very low before their enemies, contrasting the promises made to David with their seeming lack...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ MAKE YOUR *KINGDOM COME SOON! PSALMS 89 Make your *kingdom come soon. Make people obey your rules in the earth as they do in *heaven ...
(8-13) Not only is God incomparable in heaven, He is also the only mighty and lofty one in nature or history....
_[Psalms 89:10]_ אַתָּ֣ה מֹ֭ושֵׁל בְּ גֵא֣וּת הַ...
Psalms 89:1 THE foundation of this psalm is the promise in 2 Samuel 7:1 which guaranteed the perpetuity of the Davidic kingdom. Many of the characteristic phrases of the prophecy recur here- _ e.g.,_...
NO GOD LIKE OUR GOD Psalms 89:1 To understand this psalm we must turn to 2 Samuel 7:1, where God guaranteed that David's kingdom should be continued to his descendants. Nathan's words are quoted in P...
Taken as a whole, this song is one of the finest in the collection as a revelation of how the man of faith is compelled to view circumstances of calamity. In a poem of great beauty he first sets forth...
(i) Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. (i) For as he delivered the Church by the Red sea, and by destroying Rahab, that is, the Egyptians, so will he...
As a spider. As frail and weak as a spider's web; and miserable withal, whilst, like a spider, we spend our bowels in weaving webs to catch flies. (Challoner) --- Meditabuntur is here used in a passiv...
These verses contain a blessed hymn of praise. Jehovah's name, and his perfections, are gratefully celebrated. His sovereignty, grace, power, love, and goodness, are beautifully set forth, and most th...
9._Thou governest the pride of the sea. _I have already observed that what the prophet has hitherto spoken generally concerning the power of God, is to be referred to the miracle of the deliverance of...
Psalms 89. We have seen that Psalms 88 puts Israel in the presence of Jehovah (when guilty of having been unfaithful to Him), under the judgment of Jehovah, with the sense of wrath, yet in faith in Je...
THOU RULEST THE RAGING OF THE SEA,.... The power, pride, and elation of it, when it swells, and foams, and rages, and becomes boisterous, and threatens vessels upon it with utter ruin and destruction;...
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. Ver. 9. _Thou rulest the raging of the sea_] That it overwhelm not the earth: this work of God's power is often ce...
_Who is a strong Lord like unto thee?_ Who is equal to thee in power, or, as it follows, in faithfulness. _Or to thy faithfulness round about thee_ Hebrew, _and thy faithfulness is round about thee_,...
Thou rulest the raging of the sea, when it tries to rise against His laws in insolent defiance; WHEN THE WAVES THEREOF ARISE, THOU STILLEST THEM, causing them to sink back in powerless rage. Before th...
OF THE MESSIAH AND HIS KINGDOM. Maschil, a didactic poem, of Ethan, the Ezrahite, a descendant of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, 1 Chronicles 2:6; 1 Kings 4:31. He belonged to a great family, or guild,...
5-14 The more God's works are known, the more they are admired. And to praise the Lord, is to acknowledge him to be such a one that there is none like him. Surely then we should feel and express reve...
Psalms 89:9 rule H4910 (H8802) raging H1348 sea H3220 waves H1530 rise H7721 (H8800) still H7623 ...
Psalms 89:1. _I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness...
Psalms 89:1. _I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness...
Psalms 89:1. Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. That is to say, an instructive Psalm, written by or for one Ethan, one of the great singers of David's day. He sings of the covenant, the covenant with Davi...
CONTENTS: Joy over and praise of God's greatness. Complaint of the seeming failure of the covenant and prayer for redress. CHARACTERS: God, David, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Though we may find it hard to...
The time of this ode is gathered from the text; it was written after Rahab, the proud Egyptian kingdom, Psalms 87:4, was broken to pieces, Psalms 89:10; and after the hedge, the wall of Jerusalem, was...
_Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, Thou stillest them._ THE DIVINE GOVERNMENT OF THE TUMULTUOUS I. He rules the material sea. How furious does the old ocean sometimes...
_I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever._ A MAJESTIC SONG This psalm is one of the very choicest songs in the night. Midst a stream of troubled thoughts there stands a fair island of rescue...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 89:1. This is a community lament, but with a distinctive flavor. The people celebrate the Davidic kingship as God’s special gift to his people, but they also mourn the distr...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 89:8 God is more MIGHTY than any other being. He governs even the RAGING OF THE SEA; to the people of that day, the sea represented humanly unmanageable chaos....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_Maschil_,” an instruction, a didactic poem. _“Of Ethan the Ezrahite_,” “one of the four sons of Mahol, whose wisdom was excelled by Solomon (1 Kings 4:31). There is li...
EXPOSITION At first sight, a psalm of praise; but, in reality, one of expostulation and complaint. The praises of God are sung in the opening section (Psalms 89:1); they culminated in the Davidical co...
I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou est...
Job 38:8; Mark 4:39; Mark 4:41; Matthew 14:32; Matthew 8:24;...
THE PSALM OF WORSHIPFUL PRAISE Psalms 89:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction we shall take the first two verses of our study and see what God will give us. Let us quote to you these verses i...