{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/geneva/psa136.htm","path":"bib/cmt/geneva/psa136.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/geneva/psa136.htm","text":"The Geneva Bible Translation Notes, [1599]\n(a) By this repetition he shows that the least of God's benefits bind us to thanksgiving: but chiefly his mercy, which is principally declared towards his Church.\nTo him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his (b) mercy [endureth] for ever.\n(b) This was a common kind of thanksgiving, which the whole people used, when they had received any benefit from God, as in (Ch2 7:6, Ch2 20:21), meaning that God was not only merciful to their fathers, but also continued the same to their posterity.\nAnd (c) brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:\n(c) God's merciful providence toward man appears in all his creatures, but chiefly in that he delivered his Church from the clutches of their enemies.\nWith a strong hand, and with a (d) stretched out arm: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.\n(d) In doing such a work as was never done before, nor that any other could do.\nTo him which led his people through the (e) wilderness: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.\n(e) Where for the space of forty years he showed infinite and most strange wonders.\nAnd slew (f) famous kings: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:\n(f) Declaring by it that no power or authority was so dear to him as the love of his Church.\nWho remembered us in our (g) low estate: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:\n(g) In our greatest affliction and slavery when we looked for nothing less than to have had any help.\nWho giveth food to all (h) flesh: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.\n(h) Seeing that God provides even for the beasts much more has he care over his.\n(i) O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.\n(i) Seeing that all ages have had most plain testimonies of God's benefits.","title":"The Geneva Bible Translation Notes [1599]: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 136","type":"page"}