Psalms 104:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good. ”

• Psalms 104:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  That thou givest them they gather - What thou dost place before them they collect. They have no resources of their own. They can invent nothing; they cannot vary their food by art, as man does; t...

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• Psalms 104:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 104:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  hand. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.

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• Psalms 104:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good. That thou givest them they gather - All creatures are formed with such and such digestive organs, and the food...

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• Psalms 104:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Thou openest thine hand— The ideas in these verses can be excelled by nothing but by the concise elegance of the expressions; which convey to the human mind the most sublime and awful conceptions o...

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• Psalms 104:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. -All God's creatures obtain from Him their food in due season. They die at God's pleasure: and when God sends for...

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• Psalms 104:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 104:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Psalms 104:28 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Almighty's Open Hand Psalms 104:24-35 The psalmist says nothing of the operation of the great laws of nature, but passes behind and beyond to the Great Hand which opens to fill and satisfy...

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• Psalms 104:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 104:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  In these verses, from others of the great works of God in the kingdom of nature, the Psalmist finds occasion to raise songs of praise. And most beautiful and expressive is the subject. In the congreg...

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• Psalms 104:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  That thou givest them they gather ,.... What God bestows upon them as a bounty of Providence they take and make use of, and in their way thankfully, and without repining; some gather it up for immed...

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• Psalms 104:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Psalms 104:28 [That] thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good. Ver. 28. That thou givest them they gather ] Neither have they the least morsel of me...

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• Psalms 104:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  These all Both beasts and fishes, wait upon thee Expect supplies from thy providence: which is spoken of them figuratively, and with an allusion to the manner of tame beasts and fowls, which comm...

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• Psalms 104:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Divine Bounty.       19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.   20 Thou makest darkness, and...

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• Psalms 104:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Whatsoever they receive is from thy bounty and gift. Thou openest thine hand; thou providest plentifully for them; as this phrase implies, Deuteronomy 15:1 : compare Proverbs 31:20 .

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• Psalms 104:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 104:28 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 104:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 104:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Psalms 104:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 104:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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.

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• Psalms 104:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 6:33 ; Exodus 16:18 ; Exodus 16:22 ; Exodus 16:4 ; James 1:17 ; Jeremiah 29:11 ; Numbers 11:8 ; Psalms 37:24 ; Psalms 38:13 ; Psalms 39:9 ; Psalms 49:9 ; Psalms 51:15 ; Psalms 10...

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