19Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
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Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:
He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-25)God, having displayed his own power in those creatures that are strong and despise man, here shows it in one scarcely inferior to any of them in strength, and yet very tame and serviceable to man, and that is the horse, especially the horse that is prepared against the day of battle and is serviceable to man at a time when he has more than ordinary occasion for his service. It seems, there was, in…
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