Psalms 97:5 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 97:5

The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

KJV

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ASV

The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

WEB

The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.

YLT

Hills, like wax, melted before Jehovah, Before the Lord of all the earth.

DBT

The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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21 verses on the floor

Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Micah 1:3–4
For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
Isaiah 24:19–20
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
Isaiah 64:1–2
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
Habakkuk 3:6
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.

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When the kingdom of Christ was to be set up in the world, after his ascension, it would meet with many enemies, and much opposition would be given to it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It was the princes of this world that crucified the Lord of glory, 1 Cor. ii. The opposition which the Jews gave to the setting up of Christ's kingdom turned to their own ruin. Their persecuting the apostles, and forbidding them to speak to the Gentiles, filled up their sin, and brought wrath upon them to the uttermost, 1 Thess. ii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

When our God appears as a consuming fire even rocks will be wax before him. The most resolute and daring opposition will be baffled at the presence of the Lord. His very presence is enough to shame and sink it, for he is the Lord of the whole earth, by whom all the children of men are manageable and to whom they are accountable.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The attending illustrations of God's awful justice on enemies (Ps 83:14) are seen in the disclosures of His almighty power on the elements of nature (compare Ps 46:2;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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