Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God.
Ver. 2. Before the mountains were brought forth] And they were made at the creation, not cast up by the flood, as some have held. Moses first celebrateth God's eternity, and then setteth forth man's mortality; that the one being set over against the other, as Solomon speaketh in another case, Ecclesiastes 7:14, God may be glorified, and man comforted, which is the main end of the Holy Scriptures, Romans 15:4, and far beyond those consolatiunculae Philosophicae.