{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa136.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa136.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa136.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nThe divine titles denote supremacy.\nalone--excluding all help.\nby wisdom--or, \"in wisdom\" (Psa 104:24).\nmade--literally, \"maker of.\"\nabove the waters--or, \"higher than the waters\" (Psa 24:2).\nCompare similar expressions (Exo 3:20; Deu 4:34, &c.).\noverthrew--literally, \"shook off,\" as in Exo 14:27, as a contemptuous rejection of a reptile.\nremembered us--or, \"for us\" (Psa 132:1).\nour low estate--that is, captivity.\nAnd hath redeemed us--or, literally, \"snatched us\"--alluding to the sudden deliverance effected by the overthrow of Babylon.\nTo the special favors to His people is added the record of God's goodness to all His creatures (compare Mat 6:30).\nGod of heaven--occurs but once (Jon 1:9) before the captivity. It is used by the later writers as specially distinguishing God from idols.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 136","type":"page"}