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5The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
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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. …
Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
Fear 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?
And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)The psalmist here, as often elsewhere, stirs up himself and others to praise God; for it is a duty which ought to be performed with the most lively affections, and which we have great need to be excited to, being very often backward to it and cold in it. Observe, I. How God is to be praised. 1. With holy joy and delight in him. The praising song must be a joyful noise , Ps. 95:1 and again Ps. 95:2…
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