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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.
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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.
For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. …
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. …
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, …
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
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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