“ As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; ”
As the fire burneth a wood ... - The same idea is here presented under another form. No image of desolation is more fearful than that of fire raging in a forest; or of fire on the mountains. As t...
LXXXIII. The date can be fixed with a near approach to certainty. The clue is furnished by 1 Maccabees 5. The victories of Judas Maccabæ us and the cleansing of the Temple in 165 B.C. (p. 607) were...
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; The flame setteth the mountains on fire - This may refer to the burning of the straw and chaff, after the grain was threshe...
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. -Second part of the second main division. Prayer inspired by God for the extinction of the foe by the fiery storm of God. Ver...
This Ps. describes a confederacy of God's enemies, the object of which is to attack and exterminate Israel ( Psalms 83:2-5 ). A list of the allies is given ( Psalms 83:6-8 ). The Psalmist appeals to...
These verses are rightly taken together. The figure occurs in Isaiah 10:17-18 (comp. Zechariah 12:6 ), but there as a metaphor; here as a simile. “Before the rains came the whole mountain side was...
Psalms 83:1-18 THIS psalm is a cry for help against a world in arms. The failure of all attempts to point to a period when all the allies here represented as confederate against Israel were or cou...
“The Most High over All the Earth” Psalms 83:1-18 This psalm was composed on the occasion described in 2 Chronicles 20:1-37 , where we learn that at a great crisis the Spirit of God came on Ja...
The psalmist has a vision of the confederacy of all the enemies of the people of God. This he describes as to its process, it constitution, and its purpose. They have taken counsel together with the...
There is not only a great beauty in this appeal and prayer of the church, against all her enemies, but also a great exercise of faith, in divine dependence. We give God credit for all that is to come...
As the fire burneth the wood ,.... Or "forest" m; which is sometimes done purposely, and sometimes through carelessness, as Virgil n observes; and which is done very easily and swiftly, when fire is...
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; Ver. 14. As the fire burneth a wood ] Maxime quando a vento flabellatur , when blown up by a fierce wind it soon turnet...
O my God, make them like a wheel Whereas they promise themselves a sure possession, let them be like a wheel , or a round ball , which is very unstable, and soon removed, and which, when once tum...
Prophetic Imprecations. 9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:...
The mountains; understand by a metonymy the woods or forests upon the mountains, which in those hot countries, when they had once taken fire, either by lightning, or by the design of men, or by any...
INTRODUCTION This is the last of the Psalms of Asaph. If the Psalm refers to the times of Jehoshaphat, the author was probably “Jahaziel, a Levite of the sons of Asaph,” upon whom “came the Spirit o...
This is a Psalm that is not often read, and very seldom expounded, I should think. According to the title, it is «A Song or Psalm of Asaph.» Asaph is one of a little group of poets who flourished sid...
This psalm bears the style and character of Asaph's composition. It has been referred to the time of Hezekiah, when Sennacherib came up against Judea; but he came equally against Egypt, and all the n...
Keep not Thou silence, O God: hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God. An appeal to Heaven I. A lamentable social scene ( Psalms 83:2-8 ). The scene is that of men in tumultuous hostility b...
EXPOSITION THE psalmist makes a passionate appeal to God on behalf of Israel at a time of great danger. A confederacy has been formed among the surrounding nations, having for its object the d...
A Prayer for Help against the Enemies of the Church. A song or psalm of Asaph, the last of his twelve hymns in the psalter, picturing the craft and rage of the enemies and invoking God's speedy de...
Deuteronomy 32:22 ; Ezekiel 20:47 ; Ezekiel 20:48 ; Isaiah 30:33 ; Isaiah 33:11 ; Isaiah 33:12 ; Isaiah 64:1 ; Isaiah 64:2 ; Malachi 4:1 ; Nahum 1:10 ; Nahum 1:6
The mountains — The woods upon the mountains, which in those hot countries, when they have once taken fire, burn with irresistible violence.