Psalms 104:8

"At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away."

Key Reflection

In Psalms 104:8, the phrase highlights how God's authority and power command even the forces of nature, causing them to retreat at His word. This imagery foreshadows God’s sovereignty over all creation and sets a precedent for His control in the spiritual realm as well.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

They go up by the mountains ... -That is, when they were gathered together into seas. They seemed to roll and tumble over hills and mountains, and to run down in valleys, until they found the deep hollows which had been formed for seas, and where they were permanently collected together. The margin here is, “The mountains ascend, the valleys descend.” So it is translated in the Septuagint, in the Latin Vulgate, by Luther, and by DeWette. The more natural idea, however, is that in our translation: “They (the waters) go up mountains; they descend valleys.” Unto the place -The deep hollows of the earth, which seem to have been scooped out to make a place for them.

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