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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou art the God that doest wonders,.... In nature, providence, and grace; it seems chiefly to regard what was done for the Israelites in Egypt, and in the wilderness, see Psalms 78:12, thou hast declared thy strength among the people; the nations of the world, who heard what the Lord did for Israel by his mighty power, and with an outstretched...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people. Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. “Selah” again. In looking back, the psalmist has remembered the history of the whole nation. He thinks of what God did for his ancient people; indeed, he is on the verge of a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people,.... The people of Israel out of Egypt, which was typical of the redemption of the Lord's people by Christ, the arm and power of God: the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Joseph is particularly mentioned for honour's sake, and because he was the means of supporting Jacob and his family in Egypt; and had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. There is no song like that of redemption. Whatever our troubles may be if we are trusting in Christ, we are a redeemed people. Whatever our sins or infirmities, or imperfections, we are a redeemed people, like Israel of old. They were redeemed by power, as well as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph Selah. The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. I suppose that there was a storm at the time of the passage of the Red Sea, so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob an Joseph. Saints in the olden times were very fond of falling back upon the redemption of Israel out of Egypt. It was a favorite subject of their contemplation; it yielded them great comfort, and very, very frequently they turned it into sacred song. Now in heaven we shall do the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The waters saw thee, O God,.... The waters not of Jordan, but of the Red sea; these felt and perceived the power of God, in causing a strong east wind, which dried it up, and made way for the children of Israel to pass through it as on dry land: compare with this Psalms 114:3, the waters saw thee; which is repeated for the confirmation of it, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. At the very sight of God the sea began to flee, to lay bare its depths. “The floods stood upright as an heap,” in their fear and dread of the presence of God, “and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. This is what Egypt saw when God turned the dark side...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The clouds poured out water,.... This, with some other circumstances which follow, are not related by Moses in the history of this affair; but as they are here recorded by an inspired penman, there is no doubt to be made of the truth of them; besides Josephus (a) relates the same things; he says, that at the time when the Egyptians were drowned in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The clouds poured out water: The floods above answered the floods below; and came to the help of the Lord, “to the help of the Lord against the mighty.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. There was a great storm; thunder and lightning gathered about the sea. When God spoke, the waters rolled back, and swallowed up all the chivalry of Egypt. Heaven and earth joined...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven,.... Thunder is the voice of God, Job 37:5 this is heard in "the orb" (b), or the air, so called, because spherical; the Targum is "the voice of thy thunder was heard in the wheel;'' so the word here used sometimes signifies; so Ezekiel 10:13, and is so rendered here by some (c); some think this refers to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. Thy way is in the sea,— Where you cannot see his footprints; “in the sea,” where there seems to be no way at all, there God makes a highway. Are you in such trouble, dear friend, that you cannot see the possibility of escape? Remember this...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thy way is in the sea,.... In the sea of Suph, as the Targum, the Red sea; it was the Lord that made the way in the sea for the Israelites, and went before them, and led them through it: and thy path in the great waters; because the word rendered path is written with י yod, and is in the plural number, though the Masorites observe, that that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. Not foreknown. Who could have foretold that God would lead his people through the sea? His footsteps are not now to be found. God’s ways we cannot guess; and even when we have seen them, we cannot understand them. Child of God, does the sea roll before you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. And so will he continue to lead his people by one and another, till all their wanderings are over, and they rest in peace at his right hand for ever; “wherefore, comfort one another with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. There the Psalm stops, just when you thought there was more to be said. The Holy Spirit knows how to leave off, and he closes abruptly with a sublimity seldom equaled. God’s people need to know no more than this,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou leddest thy people like a flock,.... Either through the Red sea, according to R. Moses Hacohen, as Aben Ezra observes; see Isaiah 63:11, or rather, as he and Kimchi, through the wilderness, after they were led through the sea; the people of Israel are compared to a flock of sheep; the Lord is represented as the Shepherd of them, who took care...