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Selected Verse: Psalms 148:6 - Darby
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 148:6 |
Darby |
And he established them for ever and ever; he made for them a statute which shall not pass. |
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King James |
He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass. |
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] |
The perpetuity of the frame of nature is, of course, subject to Him who formed it.
a decree . . . pass--His ordinances respecting them shall not change (Jer 36:31), or perish (Job 34:20; Psa 37:36). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
He hath also stablished them forever and ever - He has made them firm, stable, enduring. That they may be eternal is possible; that they will not be, no one can prove. Matter, when created, has no necessary tendency to decay or annihilation; and the universe - the stars, and suns, and systems - which have endured so many million of ages may continue to exist any number of million of ages to come. Of course, however, all this is dependent on the will of God. On the meaning of this passage, compare Psa 119:90, note; Psa 72:5, note; Psa 89:2, note; Psa 89:36-37, note. See also Pe2 3:7, note; Pe2 3:10, note; Pe2 3:13, note.
He hath made a decree which shall not pass - He has given a law or statute which they cannot pass. The word rendered decree here seems to be used in the sense of limit or bound; and the idea is, that he has bound them by a fixed law; he has established laws which they are compelled to observe. The fact is, in regard to them, that he has established great laws - as the law of gravitation - by which they are held from flying off; he has marked out orbits in which they move; he has so bound them that they perform their revolutions with unerring accuracy in the very path which he has prescribed. So accurate are their movements that they can be predicted with exact precision; and so uniform, that any succession of ages does not vary or affect them. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Established - He hath made them constant and incorruptible, not changeable, as the things of the lower world. A decree - Concerning their continuance. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| He hath also stablished them - He has determined their respective revolutions and the times in which they are performed, so exactly to show his all-comprehensive wisdom and skill, that they have never passed the line marked out by his decree, nor intercepted each other in the vortex of space, through revolutions continued for nearly 6000 years. |
36 but he passed away, and behold, he was not; and I sought him, but he was not found.
20 In a moment they die, even at midnight the people are convulsed and pass away; and the strong are taken away without hand.
31 And I will visit their iniquity upon him, and upon his seed, and upon his servants; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; and they have not hearkened.
13 But, according to his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
7 But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me;
37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and the witness in the sky is firm. Selah.
2 For I said, Loving-kindness shall be built up for ever; in the very heavens wilt thou establish thy faithfulness.
5 They shall fear thee as long as sun and moon endure, from generation to generation.
90 Thy faithfulness is from generation to generation: thou hast established the earth, and it standeth.