wind. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.
Fire, and hail - Fire, when accompanied by hail; that is, the lightning. See Psalms 18:12 . Snow, and vapors - Snow and clouds. It was not u...
(f) Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: (f) Which come not by chance or fortune, but by God's appointed ordinance.
CXLVIII. An Invitation to Bless Yahweh. It is addressed, Psalms 148:1-6 to the heavens and all that therein is, Psalms 148:7-12 to the earth:...
Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours - All kinds of meteors, water, and fire, in all...
Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: Fire - lightning. Vapour - the result of fire and water together. Hengs...
This is the 'Gloria in Excelsis' of the Psalter, wherein all created things, animate and inanimate, are called upon to praise Jehovah.
Vapours ] smoke or steam: cp. Psalms 119:83 .
Fire. — Lightning, as in Psalms 18:12 ; Psalms 105:32 . where it is also found with “hail.” Vapours. — The same Hebrew word in Genesis 19:2...
Psalms 148:1-14 THE mercy granted to Israel ( Psalms 148:14 ) is, in the psalmist's estimation, worthy to call forth strains of praise from all cr...
Creation's Song of Praise Psalms 148:1-14 The “Benedicite” in the Book of Common Prayer is based on this psalm. The sacred minstrel is not cont...
This is the psalm of the whole creation. It has two movements indicated by the words “From the havens” (v. Psa 148:1), and “From the Earth” (v. Psa 1...
From heaven, the sacred writer descends to the earth, and calls upon everything, and every object he meets with, or can recall to his mind, to join t...
Fire, and hail ,.... These, and what follow in this verse, are in the air, but are what are exhaled or drawn up from the earth or water; "fire" is l...
Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: Ver 8. Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours ] This latter is the matter of those f...
Fire Lightning, thunderbolts, fiery meteors, in which God shows his wonderful power, lighting up those powerful flames, even in cold regions, which...
An Invitation to Praise. 7 Praise the L ORD from the earth, ye drago...
Fire; lightnings and other fire-works of the air. Vapours, or fumes; hot exhalations, as the word properly signifies, as cold exhalations are com...
INTRODUCTION “In this splendid anthem the Psalmist calls upon the whole creation, in its two great divisions (according to the Hebrew conception) of...
Psalms 148:8 I. "Fulfilling His word." Somehow or other, then, His word is fulfilled in the devastation and disfigurement of that which His own ha...
We will first read a short Psalm inciting all to praise the Lord, and then we will read part of the first chapter of Luke's Gospel, specially noticin...
This is another hallelujah psalm of Haggai and of Zechariah the prophets, in which all nature is made the choir, and Jehovah the object of the song....
Praise ye the Lord from the heavens. The great, the greater, and the greatest: - I. The great. Sun, moon, stars, etc. 1. How boundless in va...
Snow and vapours. The glaciers as prophets From the visible we divine the invisible. In what is physical we find parables concerning the spirit...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been well called "the joy-song of creation." Israel, having received a signal manifestation of the Divine power ( Ps...
Hallelujah by All Creatures to the God of Salvation. A song of praise, even more extensive in its scope than the preceding, all heavenly creatures...
fire and hail; snow and vapors, especially the smoke of volcanoes, all of these being phenomena which impressed the people of Canaan all the more sin...
Amos 4:13 ; Amos 7:4 ; Exodus 10:13 ; Exodus 10:19 ; Exodus 14:21 ; Exodus 9:23-25 ; Genesis 19:24 ; Isaiah 66:16 ; Job 37:2-6 ; Job 38:22-...
Fire — Lightnings and other fireworks of the air. Vapour — Or, fumes: hot exhalations. Fulfilling his word — Executing his commands, either for the...
8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: