Psalms 99:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob. ”

• Psalms 99:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The king’s strength - The word king here undoubtedly refers to God as a king, Psalms 99:1 . The word rendered “strength,” means power, force; and the reference here is to what constitutes the ma...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  XCIX. A Temple Song after Victory. The Ps. is divided into three parts by the refrain Holy is he ( i.e. separate from all defilement) at Psalms 99:3 ; Psalms 99:5 and (in an expanded form) at...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  judgment and righteousness. See 2 Samuel 8:15 and 1 Chronicles 18:14 . Compare with 1 Kings 10:9 .

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• Psalms 99:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  4 The king’s strength also loves judgment This may be viewed as a threatening designed to fill his enemies with dismay; as if he should say, such is God’s regard for righteousness and equity...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob. The king's strength - If this Psalm were written by David, he must mean by it...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Let them, &c.— They shall praise, they shall do homage to thy great and terrible name, because it is holy: Green adds, and powerful, from the next verse, which he renders thus: The king lo...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob. The king's strength also loveth judgment. The English version omits '...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 99:1-9 DELITZSCH has well called this psalm "an earthly echo of the seraphic Trisagion," the threefold proclamation of the Divine holiness, which Isaiah. Isaiah 6:3 It is, as already note...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Worship the Great and Holy One Psalms 99:1-9 This psalm has its counterpart in Psalms 97:1-12 . There Jehovah's reign is associated with the gladness of faith; here with the trembling of morta...

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• Psalms 99:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This is a song of the Kingdom of Jehovah as founded upon and administered in holiness. There are three distinct parts, each ending with practically the same refrain. The first acclaims the King enthr...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I do not presume to speak decidedly upon this, or any other part of the divine word. As one indeed treading holy ground, I would put off the shoes from my feet. But I would humbly ask, is not this ca...

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• Psalms 99:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The King's strength also loveth judgment ,.... Or he who is a strong and mighty King, as Christ is; which appears by saving his people, and preserving them to his kingdom and glory, and by destroyin...

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• Psalms 99:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob. Ver. 4. The king's strength also loveth judgment] i.e. Abest a Tyrannide...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The king's strength also loveth judgment “Although the strength of our king be infinite, yet is it never exerted but in righteousness and just judgment , which are his delight. They compose th...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Dominion of God.       1 The L ORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth b...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The King's strength also loveth judgment; though his dominion be absolute and uncontrollable, and his power irresistible, yet he doth not abuse it to tyranny and oppression, as the princes of the w...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION This Psalm is one of the series of Psalms which celebrate the Kingship of Jehovah. “All these Psalms,” says Perowne, “alike tell of the setting up of a Divine kingdom upon earth. All al...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  All the Versions ascribe this psalm to David, except the Chaldee, which, like the Hebrew, has no title. The occasion of its being composed is not known. Psalms 99:1 . He sitteth between the cherub...

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• Psalms 99:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The Lord reigneth. The rulership of God over the world I. As seen in symbol. “He sitteth between the cherubim.” This reference to the Shekinah teaches us that His reign is-- 1. Moral. 2....

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• Psalms 99:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION HERE we have the last of the series of Second Advent psalms, which began with Psalms 93:1-19 . The first of them, the fifth, and the last, commence in the same way—with the watchwo...

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• Psalms 99:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Praise of the Messiah, the Thrice Holy. The psalmist, in this hymn of praise which fits so well into this series, sets forth the merciful government of God, particularly as exercised in and for Hi...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Samuel 23:3 ; 2 Samuel 23:4 ; Deuteronomy 10:18 ; Deuteronomy 32:3 ; Deuteronomy 32:4 ; Isaiah 11:3-5 ; Isaiah 42:4 ; Isaiah 61:11 ; Isaiah 9:7 ; Jeremiah 23:5 ; Job 36:5-7 ; Job 37:23...

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• Psalms 99:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Judgment — Though his dominion be absolute, and his power irresistible, yet he manages it with righteousness. The king's strength is by a known Hebraism put for the strong, or powerful king. Equity...

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