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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly,.... The Targum renders it in the plural number, "cherubim"; and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions; and by whom may be meant, either the angels, who are as horses and chariots, on whom Jehovah rides, and who art he makes use of as executioners of his wrath and vengeance, Zechariah 6:5; and to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. So swift is prayer to reach the ear of God, and so swift is God to come and answer his people’s prayers.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. So swift is prayer to reach the heart of God; and so swift is God to come to the help of his people.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He made darkness his secret place,.... Which, and the dark waters in the next clause, are the same with the thick clouds in the last, in which Jehovah is represented as wrapping himself, and in which he lies hid as in a secret place; not so as that he cannot see others, as wicked men imagine, Job 22:13; but as that he cannot be beheld by others;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. Like an Oriental king, who travels beneath his royal canopy, the Lord is pictured as coming to earth with the bursting clouds and opening heavens as the pavilion of the Deity.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. Nobody can see God in the sunlight; but faith can see him in the dark, and can realize that the darkest providences are but the pavilion of Jehovah’s love.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. For all the dread artillery of heaven shall be used for the defense of the faithful. God will hold nothing in reserve when his people are in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. The LORD; also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail storms and coals of fire. Behold the dread artillery of heaven as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
At the brightness [that was] before him, The lightning that came out of the thick clouds; which may denote, either the coming of Christ to take vengeance on the Jewish nation, which was swift and sudden, clear and manifest; or the spreading of the Gospel in the Gentile world, in which Christ, the brightness of his Father's glory, appeared to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. These are some of the weapons with which he assails the adversaries of his people. With this dread artillery, he smote Pharaoh of old, when he rained wrath upon the land of Egypt, and fire mingled with the hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. The psalmist heaps together all the terrors of nature to show how God stirreth all things up for the rescue and the defense of his people. Over the head of all this blackness and these flames of fire you hear a voice
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord also thundered in the heavens,.... By his apostles and ministers, some of which were Boanergeses, sons of thunder, whose ministry was useful to shake the consciences of men, and bring them to a sense of themselves, Mr 3:17; and the Highest gave his voice; the same with thunder; for thunder is often called the voice of the Lord, Job 37:5;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. God himself came forth on his people’s behalf, and fought for them from heaven. As we read that “the stars in their courses fought against Sisera,”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! See how readily, when the Lord comes forth as a man of war (Jehovah is his name), he scattereth all his adversaries.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. What made God speak in those terrible tones? It was the faint and feeble cry of his poor servant down below. Can you and I make thunder? Yes, we can. If we can thunder at the gates of heaven by prayer, God will thunder in the heavens in his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Yea, he sent out his arrows,.... By which thunderbolts, cracks of thunder, and flashes of lightning, seem to be meant; see Psalms 77:17; comparable to arrows shot, and sent out of a bow; and may denote, either the doctrines of the Gospel, which were sharp in the hearts of Christ's enemies, and are either the means of subduing them to him, or of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightenings, and discomfited them. Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. He had not to stretch out his hand: it was but his breath that shook the earth, and set the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightning’s, and discomfited them. What a wonderful picture this is,-as if the Eternal had taken down his bow, and aimed his shafts of lightning against the foes of his people!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. The psalmist is evidently describing the passage of the Red Sea, and likening the descent of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the channels of water were seen,.... Or, "of the sea"; as in 2 Samuel 22:16. There seems to be an allusion to the drying up of the sea when the Israelites passed through it. Aben Ezra interprets this of the discovery of the secrets of enemies, and of their deep schemes and counsels, which they seek to hide, but are made known by him who sees...