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5Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
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He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. …
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Here, I. David acknowledges his dependence upon God and his obligations to him, Ps. 144:1 , 2 . A prayer for further mercy is fitly begun with a thanksgiving for former mercy; and when we are waiting upon God to bless us we should stir up ourselves to bless him. He gives to God the glory of two things:— 1. What he was to him: Blessed be the Lord my rock (Ps. 144:1), my goodness, my fortress , Ps.…
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