At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
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At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
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At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
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Passages linked to Psalms 104:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 18:15 Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
- Genesis 8:1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
- Mark 4:39 He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
- Psalms 106:9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
- Psalms 114:3-7 The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs. What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back? You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs? Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
- Proverbs 8:28 when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,
- Psalms 77:18 The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the…
Psa 104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Ver. 7. At thy rebuke they fled] At thy word of command and angry countenance, overawing that raging and ranging creature: so Christ rebuked the winds and waves.
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They hasted away] They ran away headlong, as for life.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain At thy rebuke; upon thy severe command, Gen 1:9;…
At thy rebuke; upon thy severe command, Gen 1:9; which he calls a rebuke, to imply that there was something in that state of things which might seem to need reproof and correction, even that confusion of earth and water together, which therefore God amended in his second day’s work.
They fled; they immediately went to the place which God had allotted to them. Of thy thunder; of thy sovereign command, which as they could not but hear, so they durst not disobey. He ascribes sense and reason to inanimate creatures by a figure called prosopopaeia.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain At thy rebuke they fled,.... The depths of water…
At thy rebuke they fled,.... The depths of water that covered the earth fled, went off apace, when Christ, the essential Word, gave the word of command that they should; saying, "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so", Gen 1:9 and this being called a "rebuke", suggests as if there was something amiss, irregular and disorderly, and to be amended; as if these waters were not in their proper place.
At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away; ran off with great precipitancy; just as a servant, when his master puts on a stern countenance, and speaks to him in a thundering, menacing manner, hastes away from him to do his will and work. This is an instance of the mighty power of Christ; and by the same power he removed the waters of the deluge; when they covered the earth, and the tops of the highest hills; and rebuked the Red sea, and it became dry land; and drove back the waters of Jordan for the Israelites to pass through; and who also rebuked the sea of Galilee when his disciples were in distress: and with equal ease can he and does he remove the depth of sin and darkness from his people at conversion; rebukes Satan, and delivers out of his temptations, when he comes in like a flood; and rebukes the waters of affliction when they threaten to overwhelm; who are his servants, and come when he bids them come, and go when he bids them go.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Rebuke - Upon thy command, Gen. i, 9. Fled…
Rebuke - Upon thy command, Gen. i, 9. Fled - They immediately went to the place which God had allotted them.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. At thy rebuke they fled] When God…
Verse 7. At thy rebuke they fled] When God separated the waters which were above the firmament from those below, and caused the dry land to appear. He commanded the separation to take place; and the waters, as if instinct with life, hastened to obey.
At the voice of thy thunder] It is very likely God employed the electric fluid as an agent in this separation.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain At thy rebuke they fled - At thy command;…
At thy rebuke they fled - At thy command; or when thou didst speak to them. The Hebrew word also implies the notion of “rebuke,” or “reproof,” as if there were some displeasure or dissatisfaction. Pro 13:1; Pro 17:10; Ecc 7:5; Isa 30:17; Psa 76:6. It is “as if” God had been displeased that the waters prevented the appearing or the rising of the dry land, and had commanded them to “hasten” to their beds and channels, and no longer to cover the earth. The allusion is to Gen 1:9, and there is nowhere to be found a more sublime expression than this. Even the command, “And God said, Let there be light; and there was light,” so much commended by Longinus as an instance of sublimity, does not surpass this in grandeur.
At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away - They fled in dismay. The Hebrew word - חפז châphaz - contains the idea of haste, trepidation, consternation, alarm, “as if” they were frightened; Psa 31:22. God spake in tones of thunder, and they fled. It is impossible to conceive anything more sublime than this.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7. At thy rebuke they fled—There is a harshness…
7. At thy rebuke they fled—There is a harshness in the words “rebuke,” voice of thy thunder, and in the terror implied in the terms “fled,” hasted away, as if they deemed that God was displeased at them, because, says Hengstenberg, “God is the enemy of disorder, and because the waters stood in an attitude of hostility to the realization of his purpose to manifest his glory on the earth.” This also favours the hypothesis that the condition of the earth’s surface was that of disorder and desolation, by reason of the undue prevalence of the waters of the ocean, which now give way to the present order of things. See the original fiat, Gen_1:9, and Compare Psa_106:9; Nah_1:4; Psa_18:15; Isa_50:2
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. At thy rebuke they flee,
7. At thy rebuke they flee,
At the voice of thy thunder they haste away,
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7, 8. The graphic imperfects are continued, picturing the process of the separation of land and water.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain At thy rebuke they fled. It required only a…
At thy rebuke they fled. It required only a few words from God (Gen_1:9) for the whole surface of the earth to be changed. The waters "fled they shifted their place removed from some portions of the earth"s surface, and "gathered themselves together" into others, allowing the dry land to appear. Elevations and depressions of the land must have at the same time occurred. At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. (comp. Job_40:9, "Hast thou an arm like God, or canst thou thunder with a voice like his? The voice of God, especially when he speaks in "rebuke," is as thunder.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 7. At thy rebuke they fled; at the…
Ver. 7. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. When the waters and vapours covered all, the Lord had but to speak and they disappeared at once. As though they had been intelligent agents the waves hurried to their appointed deeps and left the land to itself; then the mountains lifted their heads, the high lands rose from the main, and at length continents and islands, slopes and plains were left to form the habitable earth. The voice of the Lord effected this great marvel. Is not his word equal to every emergency? potent enough to work the greatest miracle? By that same word shall the waterfloods of trouble be restrained, and the raging billows of sin be rebuked: the day cometh when at the thunder of Jehovah's voice all the proud waters of evil shall utterly haste away. "O Lord, my God, thou art very great."
Ver. 7. At thy rebuke they fled. The famous description of Virgil comes to mind, who introduces Neptune as sternly rebuking the winds for daring without his consent to embroil earth and heaven, and raise such huge mountain-waves: then swifter than the word is spoken, he calms the swollen seas, scatters the gathered clouds, and brings back the sun. Lorinus.
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Ver. 7. At the voice of thy that rider they hasted away, ran off with great precipitance: just as a servant, when his master puts on a stern countenance, and speaks to him in a thundering, menacing manner, hastens away from him to do his will and work. This is an instance of the mighty power of Christ; and by the same power he removed the waters of the deluge, when they covered the earth, and the tops of the highest hills; and rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry land; and drove back the waters of Jordan for the Israelites to pass through; and who also rebuked the Sea of Galilee when his disciples were in distress; and with equal ease can be and does he remove the depth of sin and darkness from his people at conversion; rebukes Satan, and delivers out of his temptations, when he comes in like a flood; and commands off the waters of affliction when they threaten to overwhelm; who are his servants, and come when he bids them come, and go when he bids them go. John Gill.
Ver. 7. At the voice of thy thunder. It is very likely God employed the electric fluid as an agent in this separation. Ingram Cobbin.
Ver. 7. They hasted away.
God said,
Be gathered now, ye waters under heaven
Into one place and let dry land appear.
Immediately the mountains huge appear
Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave
Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky:
So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low
Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep,
Capacious bed of waters: Thither they
Hasted with glad precipitance, uprolled
As drops on dust conglobing from the dry:
Part rise in crystal wall, or ridge direct,
For haste: such flight the great command impressed
On the swift floods: As armies at the call
Of trumpet (for of armies thou hast heard)
Troop to their standard; so the watery throng,
Wave rolling after wave, where way they found,
If steep, with torrent rapture, if through plain,
Soft ebbing; nor withstood them rock or hill;
But they, or under ground, or circuit wide
With serpent error wandering, found their way,
And on the washy ooze deep channels wore;
Easy, ere God had bid the ground be dry,
All but within those banks, where rivers now
Stream, and perpetual draw their tumid train,
The dry land, Earth; and the great receptacle
Of congregated waters, he called Seas:
And saw that it was good. John Milton.
Ver. 7. The power of the divine word in nature shows its power in other spheres.
Psalms 104:8*
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 104:7 The Lord created dry ground on day three…
104:7 The Lord created dry ground on day three of creation (Gen 1:9-13).
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