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