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Selected Verse: Psalms 104:16 - Updated King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 104:16 |
Updated King James |
The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted; |
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King James |
The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| God's care of even wild animals and uncultivated parts of the earth. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The trees of the Lord - From the grass, from the herb, from the vine, and from bread, as adapted to sustain the living beings upon the earth, the psalmist passes to the more lofty and grand productions of the vegetable world - to those which display more manifestly the power of God, and which furnish abodes and retreats for the various orders of living beings. The phrase "the trees of the Lord" means great and magnificent trees - as the expression "mountains of God" means great and lofty mountains - as if they seemed to "approach" God, or as if no appellation would so well describe their nature as that which was derived from the Infinite One. See Psa 36:6, note; Psa 65:9, note; Psa 80:10, note.
Are full of sap - The word so rendered means merely to be full, to be saturated - the words "of sap" being supplied by the translators. The idea is, that, lofty as they are, they are abundantly supplied with that which is necessary to their growth. There is no want - no lack - of that which is needful to supply them. They flourish, sustained abundantly by that which is derived from the earth and the waters.
The cedars of Lebanon - As among the loftiest and most magnificent productions of the earth. See Psa 29:5, note; Psa 92:12, note; Isa 2:13, note.
Which he hath planted - So lofty and large, that it would seem as if none could plant them but the Almighty. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Trees - Which come up, and thrive not by man's industry, but merely by the care of God's providence. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The trees of the Lord are full of sap - ישבעו yisbeu, "are saturated."
The cedars of Lebanon - God's providence not only extends to then and cattle, but also to the trees of the field and forest. Many of these are not only sustained, but planted by his providence. Who ever planted the seeds of the cedars of Lebanon, or of the thousands of woods and forests on the globe? God himself sowed those seeds, and they have sprung up and flourished without the care of man. |
13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; yea, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
9 You visit the earth, and water it: you greatly enrich it with the river of God, which is full of water: you prepare them corn, when you have so provided for it.
6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.