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Selected Verse: Psalms 104:7 - Basic English
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 104:7 |
Basic English |
At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear; |
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King James |
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
At thy rebuke they fled - At thy command; or when thou didst speak to them. The Hebrew word also implies the notion of "rebuke," or "reproof," as if there were some displeasure or dissatisfaction. Pro 13:1; Pro 17:10; Ecc 7:5; Isa 30:17; Psa 76:6. It is "as if" God had been displeased that the waters prevented the appearing or the rising of the dry land, and had commanded them to "hasten" to their beds and channels, and no longer to cover the earth. The allusion is to Gen 1:9, and there is nowhere to be found a more sublime expression than this. Even the command, "And God said, Let there be light; and there was light," so much commended by Longinus as an instance of sublimity, does not surpass this in grandeur.
At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away - They fled in dismay. The Hebrew word - חפז châphaz - contains the idea of haste, trepidation, consternation, alarm, "as if" they were frightened; Psa 31:22. God spake in tones of thunder, and they fled. It is impossible to conceive anything more sublime than this. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Rebuke - Upon thy command, Gen 1:9. Fled - They immediately went to the place which God had allotted them. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
At thy rebuke they fled - When God separated the waters which were above the firmament from those below, and caused the dry land to appear. He commanded the separation to take place; and the waters, as if instinct with life, hastened to obey.
At the voice of thy thunder - It is very likely God employed the electric fluid as an agent in this separation. |
22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.
6 At the voice of your wrath, O God of Jacob, deep sleep has overcome carriage and horse.
17 A thousand will go in fear before one; even before five you will go in flight: till you are like a pillar by itself on the top of a mountain, and like a flag on a hill.
5 It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.
10 A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
1 A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.