Psalm 104:35 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 104:35

Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth - Compare Psalms 37:38. This might with propriety be rendered, “Consumed are the sinners out of the earth,” expressing a fact and not a desire; and it may have been prompted by the feeling of the psalmist that such an event would occur; that is, that the time would come when sin would no more abound, but when the world would be filled with righteousness, and all the dwellers on the earth would praise God. The word translated “consumed” - from תמם... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 104:35

Psalms 104:35. Let the sinners be consumed, &c. This speaks terror to the wicked. As if he had said, As for those ungodly creatures who do not regard the works of the Lord, nor give him the glory due to his name, but dishonour him, and abuse his creatures, and thereby provoke God to destroy the earth, and the men and things which are upon it, let them be consumed, and be no more, for it is my prayer that, for thine honour and for the safety of mankind, those sinners who obstinately... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 104:1-35

Psalms 104:0 God’s earthThe theme of this song of praise is the wisdom and power of God as seen in nature. The song begins by considering the splendour of the heavens. The light of the sun, the expanse of sky reaching down to meet the earth on the horizon, the movement of clouds blown by the wind, the flashes of lightning - all these things speak of the magnificence of God who dwells in and rules over the universe (1-4).Land and sea also display the greatness of God. He determined where they... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 104:35

sinners. Hebrew. chata'. App-44 . the wicked = lawless ones. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44 . be no more = be there no sign of them. Compare Psalms 103:16 . Praise ye THE LORD (Hebrew Jah. App-4 ). Hebrew. Halelu-jah. This is the first "Hallelujah" in the O.T. The Talmud and the Midrash call attention to the fact that it is connected with the overthrow of the wicked. We may note that it is the same with the first Hallelujah in the N.T. (Revelation 19:1 , Revelation 19:2 ). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 104:35

35. Those who refuse such a protector and withhold such a service mar the beauty of His works, and must perish from His presence. Praise ye the Lord—The Psalm closes with an invocation of praise, the translation of a Hebrew phrase, which is used as an English word, "Hallelujah," and may have served the purpose of a chorus, as often in our psalmody, or to give fuller expression to the writer's emotions. It is peculiar to Psalms composed after the captivity, as "Selah" is to those of an earlier... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 104:1-35

Psalms 104This psalm of descriptive praise is quite similar to Psalms 103. Both begin and end with similar calls to bless God. However, God’s dealing with people is the subject of praise in Psalms 103, whereas His creation and sustenance of the world are the theme of Psalms 104."The structure of the psalm is modelled [sic] fairly closely on that of Genesis 1, taking the stages of creation as starting-points for praise. But as each theme is developed it tends to anticipate the later scenes of... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 104:33-35

4. Proper responses 104:33-35aThe psalmist vowed to praise God with his mouth and with his mind because of God’s creative and sustaining sovereignty. He also prayed that wicked sinners would perish from the earth. They are out of harmony with all of creation that responds submissively to the Creator’s commands."The psalmist is not vindictive in his prayer against the wicked but longs for a world fully established and maintained by the Lord, without outside interference." [Note: VanGemeren, p.... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 104:35

5. Epilogue 104:35bThe psalm concludes as it began, with the psalmist reminding himself to bless the Lord by praising Him. "Praise the Lord" translates the Hebrew haleluyah. The translators often simply transliterated this Hebrew expression as "hallelujah." There are 23 occurrences of this term in the psalms, and this is the first (cf. Psalms 105:45; Psalms 106:1; Psalms 106:48; Psalms 112:1; Psalms 113:1; Psalms 113:9; Psalms 115:18; Psalms 116:19; Psalms 117:2; Psalms 135:1; Psalms 135:3;... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 104:1-35

This is a Ps. of Nature, celebrating God’s glory as seen in His works both inanimate and animate. It is an expansion of the closing vv. of Psalms 103, and like that Ps. begins and ends with the phrase, ’Bless the Lord, O my soul!’ The two Pss. are probably the work of the same author. Psalms 104 follows to some extent the order of the creation-poem in Genesis 1, and may be compared also with Job 38-41. Psalms 104:5-9, Psalms 104:19 speak of the creation of the world, but the greater part of the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 104:35

(35) Sinners be consumed.—This imprecation, which comes in at the close of this otherwise uniformly glad hymn, has been variously excused. The truth seems to be that from a religious hymn of Israel, since religion and patriotism were one, the expression of the national feeling against heathen oppressors and apostates who sided with them could not well be absent, whatever its immediate subject and tone. But the poet touches even a profounder truth.[19] The harmony of creation was soon broken by... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 104:35

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 104:35

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 104:1-35

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 104:35

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 104:35

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 104:1-35

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 104:33-35

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 104:35

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 104:1-35

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 104:35

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