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2Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
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Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. …
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)What was to be said among the heathen in the foregoing psalm (Ps. 96:10) is here said again (Ps. 97:1) and is made the subject of this psalm, and of Ps. 99:1-9. The Lord reigns ; that is the great truth here laid down. The Lord Jehovah reigns, he that made the world governs it; he that gave being gives motion and power, gives law and commission, gives success and event. Every man’s judgment procee…
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