Psalms 104:32 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke. ”

Psalms 104:32 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth - There is great sublimity in this expression, as indicating the power and the majesty of God. He has only to “look” upon his works, and they stand in aw...
Psalms 104:32 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they (r) smoke. (r) God's merciful face gives strength to the earth, but his severe countenance burns the mountains.
Psalms 104:32 - 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...
Psalms 104:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke. He looketh on the earth - Even the look of God terrifies all created nature! He toucheth the hills - So easy is it f...
Psalms 104:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke. He loooketh on the earth, and it trembleth; he toucheth the hills, and they smoke - the ground of the confide...
Psalms 104:32 - 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...
Psalms 104:32 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Trembleth. — With the praise is united something of awe and fear, since the majesty and power of Him who made the world is so great. Its very existence is dependent on His will, and a glance, a tou...
Psalms 104:32 - 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...
Psalms 104:32 - 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...
Psalms 104:32 - 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...
Psalms 104:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Psalmist having begun this song of sublime adoration and thanksgiving, knows not how to quit it. Again and again he dwells upon the blessed theme, and in these verses, celebrates afresh Jehovah's...
Psalms 104:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth ,.... As Sinai did when he descended on it, Psalms 68:8 , to which the allusion seems to be; and a look from him, a severe one, a frowning one, will make t...
Psalms 104:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke. Ver. 32. He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth ] This must be considered, that God may be as well feared as lo...
Psalms 104:32 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth , &c. Unable to bear his frown. This is a further illustration of God's powerful providence. As when he affords his favour to creatures, they live and t...
Psalms 104:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Divine Bounty. 31 The glory of the L ORD shall endure for ever: the L ORD shall rejoice in his works. 32 He loo...
Psalms 104:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This is a further illustration of God's powerful providence over all the creatures, and their dependence upon him; as when he affords his favour to creatures, they live and thrive, so one the contrar...
Psalms 104:32 - 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...
Psalms 104:32 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 104:31-33 I. In God, in the ever-blessed Trinity Father, Son, and Holy Ghost we and every living thing live, and move, and have our being. He is the Infinite, whom nothing, however huge, an...
Psalms 104:32 - 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...
Psalms 104:32 - 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...
Psalms 104:32 - 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...
Psalms 104:32 - 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...
Psalms 104:32 - 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.
Psalms 104:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 8:8 ; Exodus 19:18 ; Habakkuk 3:10 ; Habakkuk 3:5 ; Habakkuk 3:6 ; Isaiah 64:1 ; Isaiah 64:2 ; Jeremiah 4:23-26 ; Jeremiah 5:22 ; Nahum 1:5 ; Nahum 1:6 ; Psalms 144:5 ; Psalms 50:3...
Psalms 104:32 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

He looketh — This is a farther illustration of God's powerful providence: as when he affords his favour to creatures, they live and thrive, so on the contrary, one angry look or touch of his upon t...

Psalms 104:32 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 104:32 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 104:32 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 104:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 104:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 104:32 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 104:32 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 104:32 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 104:32 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 104:32 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 104:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 104:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 104:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 104:32 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 104:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 104:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 104:32 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 104:32 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 104:32 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 104:32 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 104:32 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 104:32 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 104:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 104:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 104:32 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes