He stood and measured the earth— He stood, and measured out the land; he beheld, and scattered the nations: The eternal mountains dispersed, the perpetual hills bowed; the everlasting ways opened their Lord. Green; who observes, that it was customary for a conqueror, as soon as he became possessed of a country, to measure it out, and divide it among his people; thus David, I will triumph and divide Sichem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. Hence Jehovah, who takes possession of the land of Canaan upon the flight and cession of its guilty inhabitants, is represented as dividing it among the tribes of Israel. This passage is extremely poetical; wherein not only the inhabitants of Canaan, but the land itself is represented as struck with conscious terror at the approach of Jehovah. The Hebrew לו lo, is translated owned their Lord, because the literal sense of it, were for him, or on his side, amounts to the same.
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Habakkuk 3:6
6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.