Though the waters thereof roar— We have before observed, that it is familiar with David to consider a vast host of the enemy under the idea of a flood of waters; a noble instance of which we have in this verse: and I should only beg leave to add David's own comment upon it, as one of the finest instances of the sublime which the imagination can conceive, Psalms 46:6. The heathen raged;—the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice:—the earth melted. Delaney, Life of David, b. 3: chap. 3.

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