Remaining Chapters
17The clouds poured out{H8776)} water: the skies sent out{H8804)} a sound: thine arrows also went abroad{H8691)}.
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Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel. …
To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-20)The psalmist here recovers himself out of the great distress and plague he was in, and silences his own fears of God’s casting off his people by the remembrance of the great things he had done for them formerly, which though he had in vain tried to quiet himself with ( Ps. 77:5 , 6 ) yet he tried again, and, upon this second trial, found it not in vain. It is good to persevere in the proper means…
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