22Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
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Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, …
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-24)The prophet, having reproved them for sin and threatened the judgments of God against them, is here sent to them again upon another errand, which he must publish in Judah ; the purport of it is to persuade them to fear God, which would be an effectual principle of their reformation, as the want of that fear had been at the bottom of their apostasy. I. He complains of the shameful stupidity of this…
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