“ The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. ”
The young lions roar after their prey - This is a continuation of the description in the previous verse. At night the beasts which had been hidden in the daytime crawl forth and seek their food....
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat (l) from God. (l) That is, they only find meat according to God's providence, who cares even for the brute beasts.
CIV. The Glory of the Creator. Psalms 104:1-4 . Yahweh's power in the heavens. He is clothed in the light which God made first ( Genesis 1:3 ) before the heavenly bodies. He lays the foundation o...
21. The lions roar after their prey Although lions, if hunger compels them, go forth from their dens and roar even at noon-day, yet the prophet describes what is most usually the case. He th...
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. The young lions roar after their prey - It is said of the lion, that his roaring is so terrible as to astonish and quite unnerve t...
The young lions roar after their prey— Dr. Hammond observes, that lions are not provided with great swiftness of foot to pursue those beasts on which they prey. It is necessary, therefore, that thi...
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. Thou makest darkness ... wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions ... s...
This is a Ps. of Nature, celebrating God's glory as seen in His works both inanimate and animate. It is an expansion of the closing vv. of Psalms 103 , and like that Ps. begins and ends with the phr...
Psalms 104:1-35 LIKE the preceding psalm, this one begins and ends with the psalmist's call to his soul to bless Jehovah. The inference has been drawn that both psalms have the same author, but th...
a Habitation for Beast and Man Psalms 104:13-23 Where there is true love for God, there will be a glad and rejoicing heart that takes pleasure in the study of His works. The loving child of a g...
Again we have a great song of praise commencing and closing with the same note of personal praise. While in the former the dominant note is that of the mercy of Jehovah, here it is that of His majest...
As in the natural; set in the spiritual world, there are seasons of light and darkness; and when Jesus, the Sun of righteousness, for a moment withdraws his shining from the soul, and makes darkness...
The young lions roar after their prey ,.... Or, "at the prey" f; for, according to the Scriptures, it seems as if their time of roaring was when they have got their prey, and are tearing it and feed...
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. Ver. 21. The young lions roar ] Rousing themselves out of their dens by night, and then usually seizing upon what prey God send...
The young lions Which can no more subsist, without Divine Providence, than those that are old and infirm; roar after their prey They roar, as naturalists observe, when they come within sight of t...
The Divine Bounty. 19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. 20 Thou makest darkness, and...
The young lions; which can no more subsist without Divine Providence than those which are most old and decrepit. Roar after their prey; they roar when they come within sight and reach of their pr...
INTRODUCTION “This Psalm,” says Calvin, “differs from the last, in that it neither treats of God’s special mercies bestowed on His Church, nor lifts us to the hope of a heavenly life; but painting f...
Psalms 104:20-21 I. Consider, with respect and admiration, the manful, cheerful view of pain and death, and indeed of the whole creation, which the psalmist has, because he has faith. There is in...
I trust that we have already felt something of holy enjoyment while our hearts and voices have been praising the Lord our God. Perhaps this Psalm may help to keep us in a praising state of mind. Firs...
This psalm has no title in the Hebrew, but it is ascribed to David by the LXX, and by most of the Versions. It celebrates the works of God in the creation of the world, and in strains worthy of the r...
O Lord my God, Thou art very great. A hymn of praise to God in Nature I. The universality of God’s workings in Nature. 1. In the domain of dead matter. He is operating in the waters as they...
EXPOSITION " THE psalmist, in a time of severe trouble, arising from the power of the heathen, seeks consolation in reflecting on the greatness of God in nature," So Hengstenberg, correctly. Th...
Praise of God for His Work in the Kingdom of Nature. The psalmist, probably David, as in the preceding psalm, celebrates the glory of God in the works of His creation and providence.
Amos 3:4 ; Ezekiel 19:2-14 ; Isaiah 31:4 ; Job 38:39 ; Job 38:41 ; Joel 1:18 ; Joel 1:20 ; Joel 2:22 ; Psalms 34:10 ; Psalms 147:9
Roar — They roar when they come within sight of their prey. Seek — Their roaring is a kind of natural prayer to God, for relief.