Psalms 97:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Psalms 97:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Micah 1:3-4
For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. …
Isaiah 24:19-20
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. …
Isaiah 64:1-2
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, …
Psalms 47:2
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

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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 proceed…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

3-5. The attending illustrations of God’s awful justice on enemies (Psa 83:14) are seen in the disclosures of His almighty power on the elements of nature (compare Psa 46:2; 77:17; Ha 3:6, &c.).