The author of this psalm is unknown, and there is nothing by which we can determine this, or its date, or the occasion on which it was written. It seems, from Psalms 93:5, to have been composed with some reference to the sanctuary, and to the service there: “Holiness becometh thine “house,” O Lord,”... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD REIGNETH - The same commencement of a psalm occurs in Psalms 97:1; Psalms 99:1. The same idea is often found in the Scriptures. 1 Chronicles 16:31; Psalms 47:8; Isaiah 52:7; Revelation 19:6. The thought seems abrupt here. It would appear as if the psalmist had been meditating on the dark th... [ Continue Reading ]
THY THRONE IS ESTABLISHED OF OLD - Whatever might occur, the throne of God was firm. That could not be moved. It had been set up from all eternity. It had stood through all the convulsions and changes which had occurred in the universe; and it would stand firm forever. Whatever might change, that wa... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FLOODS HAVE LIFTED UP, O LORD, THE FLOODS HAVE LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE - The word here rendered “floods,” means properly rivers, and then it may be applied to any waters. The word voice here refers to the noise of raging waters when they are agitated by the winds, or when they dash on the shore. S... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD ON HIGH IS MIGHTIER THAN THE NOISE OF MANY WATERS - That is, he is more powerful than those waters; he is able to control them. See Psalms 65:7, note; Job 38:11, note. The original here is more rapid in the course of the thought; more emphatic and forcible: “More than the voice of waters -... [ Continue Reading ]
THY TESTIMONIES ARE VERY SURE - All that thou hast borne witness to; all that thou hast affirmed or declared to be true. This would embrace “all that” God has spoken, whether his law, his promises, his commands, his prophecies, or his statements of what has occurred and of what will occur. See the n... [ Continue Reading ]