_An exhortation, by the example of the dumb creatures, to fear God in his church._ BISHOP PATRICK supposes, that as the foregoing psalm recites some instances of divine providence to particular people, so this makes a brief narration of some miraculous works of that providence, which respected the... [ Continue Reading ]
JUDAH WAS HIS SANCTUARY— The tribe of Judah is here put for the Jews in general, because Judah was the principal tribe. See Numbers 2:3; Numbers 7:12; Numbers 10:14. A correspondent of Sir Richard Steele's (Spectator, No. 461.) has translated this psalm into English verse; and in doing it he perceiv... [ Continue Reading ]
TREMBLE, THOU EARTH— The LXX read, _The earth did tremble,_ in a more easy meaning, as being an answer to the foregoing question; but perhaps not so well suited to the Psalmist's design, which is to let the world know, that as it was from the presence of God among his people heretofore that _the sea... [ Continue Reading ]