Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 33:4
4-9. Reasons for praise: first, God's truth, faithfulness, and mercy, generally; then, His creative power which all must honor. read more
4-9. Reasons for praise: first, God's truth, faithfulness, and mercy, generally; then, His creative power which all must honor. read more
6. In "word" and "breath"—or, "spirit," there may be an allusion to the Son (John 1:1) and Holy Spirit. read more
4-9. Reasons for praise: first, God's truth, faithfulness, and mercy, generally; then, His creative power which all must honor. read more
9. he spake—literally, "said." it was—The addition of "done" weakens the sense (compare :-). read more
10, 11. In God's providence He thwarts men's purposes and executes His own. heathen—literally, "nations." read more
12-19. The inference from the foregoing in Psalms 33:12 is illustrated by God's special providence, underlying which is His minute knowledge of all men. read more
12-19. The inference from the foregoing in Psalms 33:12 is illustrated by God's special providence, underlying which is His minute knowledge of all men. read more
15. fashioneth—or, "forms," and hence knows and controls ( :-). alike—without exception. considereth—or, "understands"; God knows men's motives. read more
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 33:19
Psalms 33:19. To keep them alive in famine— This verse is plain enough, if the psalm refers, as was hinted at the beginning, to the case of the Israelites in the wilderness; but if to any particular victory of David's, it seems to import that he and his people had been in great want of provisions, occasioned, perhaps, by that stratagem of the enemy's conduct, which God is said above to have defeated; and that possibly might be one reason, why here, particularly, numbers were of no service.... read more