
Text -- Psalms 97:5 (NET)




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JFB -> Psa 97:3-5
JFB: Psa 97:3-5 - -- 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 ...
Clarke: Psa 97:5 - -- The hills melted like wax - The fire of God seized on and liquefied them, so that they no longer opposed his march; and the mountains before him bec...
The hills melted like wax - The fire of God seized on and liquefied them, so that they no longer opposed his march; and the mountains before him became a plain

Clarke: Psa 97:5 - -- The Lord of the whole earth - אדון כל הארץ adon col haarets , the Director, Stay, and Support of the whole earth. The universal Governor,...
The Lord of the whole earth -
TSK -> Psa 97:5
TSK: Psa 97:5 - -- hills : Jdg 5:4, Jdg 5:5; Isa 24:19, Isa 24:20, Isa 64:1, Isa 64:2; Mic 1:3, Mic 1:4; Nah 1:5; Hab 3:6
the Lord of : Psa 47:2, Psa 83:18; Isa 54:5; Mi...

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Barnes -> Psa 97:5
Barnes: Psa 97:5 - -- The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord - They seemed to flow down as if they were like melted wax: that is, they could not stand...
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord - They seemed to flow down as if they were like melted wax: that is, they could not stand before him. The most firm, solid, lofty things were as nothing in his presence. Compare Rev 20:11; Jdg 5:5; Mic 1:4; Nah 1:5. The object here is to describe the sublimity, the greatness, the majesty of God, as if nothing could stand before him; as if everything fled away when he approached. There is perhaps a general allusion to his glory and power as manifested at Sinai.
At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth - The Creator and Ruler of the entire world. The God who thus manifested himself is not a local Deity, or the God of a particular nation or country, but the God of the whole world, before whom all created things are as nothing.
Poole -> Psa 97:5
Poole: Psa 97:5 - -- The hills the strongest and loftiest parts of the earth; whereby he may understand the great potentates of the world who set themselves against the M...
The hills the strongest and loftiest parts of the earth; whereby he may understand the great potentates of the world who set themselves against the Messias.
The Lord of the whole earth whose dominion shall not then be confined in Canaan, as now in a manner it is, but shall be enlarged over the whole earth.
Gill -> Psa 97:5
Gill: Psa 97:5 - -- The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord,.... Kimchi interprets the "hills" of the kings of the wicked; and it was verified in Herod and ...
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord,.... Kimchi interprets the "hills" of the kings of the wicked; and it was verified in Herod and his nobles, and the citizens of Jerusalem, who, when they heard of the coming of the Messiah, of the birth of the King of the Jews, were exceedingly moved and troubled; their hearts melted like wax within them, Mat 2:1, so when he appeared, in the power of his Gospel, in the Gentile world, and went forth in the ministration of it, conquering, and to conquer, all fled before him; every mountain and island were moved out of their places; and the kings of the earth, and great men, ran to the rocks to hide them from his face, which they could not bear, Rev 6:14, and the like events, and more terrible, will they be, when he comes to destroy antichrist, and especially to judge the world, Rev 16:19.
at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth; as Christ is; he is Lord of all, the Prince of the kings of the earth, Act 10:36, Rev 1:5, and as he will show himself to be at the great day; and that is the reason why the proud and lofty, comparable to hills and mountains, shall melt at his presence.

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TSK Synopsis -> Psa 97:1-12
TSK Synopsis: Psa 97:1-12 - --1 The majesty of God's kingdom.7 The church rejoices at God's judgments upon idolaters.10 An exhortation to godliness and gladness.
MHCC -> Psa 97:1-7
MHCC: Psa 97:1-7 - --Though many have been made happy in Christ, still there is room. And all have reason to rejoice in Christ's government. There is a depth in his counse...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 97:1-7
Matthew Henry: Psa 97:1-7 - -- What was to be said among the heathen in the foregoing psalm (Psa 97:10) is here said again (Psa 97:1) and is made the subject of this psalm, and of...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 97:4-6
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 97:4-6 - --
Again we have nothing but echoes of the older literature: Psa 97:4 = Psa 77:19; Psa 97:4 , cf. Psa 77:17; Psa 97:5 , cf. Mic 1:4; Psa 97:5 , cf....
Constable: Psa 90:1--106:48 - --IV. Book 4: chs. 90--106
Moses composed one of the psalms in this section of the Psalter (Ps. 90). David wrote t...

Constable: Psa 97:1-12 - --Psalm 97
The writer of this psalm saw the Lord coming to rule and reign on the earth. He exhorted his re...

Constable: Psa 97:2-9 - --2. The appearance of the King 97:2-9
97:2-5 These verses reveal the appearance of the Lord in terms similar to other visions God gave His prophets (cf...
