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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap,.... Which was done on the third day of the creation, by means of which the dry land appeared, Genesis 1:9; when the waters of the sea were piled up as an heap, and stood higher than the earth, as they now do; and which is a wonderful instance of the power and providence of God, to bound them,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. These are simple but grand words. The work of creation was very wonderful, and it was all wrought...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. We know not how much God hath in store, out of sight, in the vast abysses; but we know that he drowned the world when he broke up the fountains of the great deep.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let all the earth fear the Lord,.... That is, all the men that dwell upon the face of the earth. As it follows, let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him; which fear and awe design a reverence of the divine Majesty, whose divine perfections are so manifest in the works of creation; and a carefulness not to offend him, into whose...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. He is so great a God that all the oceans are in his sight but as a heap; let us worship, and adore, and bow down before him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he spake, and it was [done],.... Or "it was" (a), it came into being by a word speaking, almighty power going along with it; see Genesis 1:3; he commanded, and it stood fast; every created thing continued in its being; not only all things were produced into being by his all commanding word and power, "nutu Jovis", as Maximus Tyrius speaks (b);...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. With God it is no sooner said than it is done; “He spake, and it was done.” All that he has to do is but to bid it be so, and so it is. And, as it was for creation, so is it for confirmation: “He commanded, and it stood fast.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to nought,.... The psalmist having taken notice of the works of creation, in order to excite the saints to praise, proceeds to observe the providence of God, and particularly that branch of it which lies in disappointing the designs of wicked men; it is wickedness which they consult and devise, and thin...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought They plot and they contrive, but he baffles them; men may think and scheme as they will, but God has his way, after all.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He maketh the devices of the people of none effect. The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. His decrees stand fast. Still Jehovah reigns, and still he must reign for ever and ever.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. If the folly of man yields to God’s wisdom, so also shall the wisdom of man. No matter though men take counsel together against the Lord, and against his Anointed, God will certainly carry out his purposes.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever,.... By which are meant, not the doctrines of the Gospel, nor the ordinances of it; though these will stand firm, and remain to the end of the world; but the purposes and decrees of God, which are wisely formed in himself, are eternal and unfrustrable, and relate to all things in providence and grace. The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. What the Lord intends to do, he will do; there is no turning him from his purpose, and his dispensations stand fast for ever.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] the Lord,.... Who have an interest in such a wonder working God, both in creation and in providence, and especially in grace: which, though it may have a principal regard to the nation of Israel, whose God he was in a very distinguishing manner, yet must not be limited to them; for he is the God of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. There is the reason why they are blessed, it is all owing to God’s electing love: “the people whom he hath chosen.” If God has chosen them, they are blessed people indeed. Whom he determines to bless, none can effectually curse.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. If you have chosen God, God has chosen you. It is a happy thing when it is so; when these two elections meet,-your election of God, and God’s election of you,-then you are happy indeed.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord looketh from heaven,.... Where his throne and temple are, upon the earth and men, and things in it, as follows; he beholdeth all the sons of men; the evil and the good; which is contrary to the sense of many wicked men, who imagine he takes no notice of what is done here below; but his eye is upon all, upon all the workers of iniquity,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD looketh from heaven; he beboldeth all the sons of men. As we look out of a window, and see the people passing in the street below, “he beholdeth all the sons of men,” whether at the pole or at the equator. None are hidden from his omniscient eye.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. Just as in a glass hive you can see all the bees, and all they do, so can God see us; and he can see all that we think, and read and know us through and through.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
From the place of his habitation,.... Which is heaven, that is, the habitation of his holiness, and of his glory, Isaiah 63:15; he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth; good and bad; and not the nation of Israel only, but the Gentile world, whom in former times he overlooked, but under the Gospel dispensation visits in a way of mercy; by...