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4His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

Psalms 97:4

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

  • He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.

  • And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

  • And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. …

  • Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

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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