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6To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
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For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)The duty we are here again and again called to is to give thanks , to offer the sacrifice of praise continually , not the fruits of our ground or cattle, but the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name , Heb. 13:15. We are never so earnestly called upon to pray and repent as to give thanks ; for it is the will of God that we should abound most in the most pleasant exercises of religion, in th…
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