Psalm 93:1 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 93:1-5

Next to the being of God there is nothing that we are more concerned to believe and consider than God's dominion, that Jehovah is God, and that this God reigns (Ps. 93:1), not only that he is King of right, and is the owner and proprietor of all persons and things, but that he is King in fact, and does direct and dispose of all the creatures and all their actions according to the counsel of his own will. This is celebrated here, and in many other psalms: The Lord reigns. It is the song of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 93:1

The Lord reigneth ,.... The King Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the true Jehovah. God over all, the Lord God omnipotent: he has reigned, he was set up as King from everlasting; he reigned throughout the whole Old Testament dispensation; he was promised, and prophesied of, as a King; he came as such, in human nature, into the world, though his kingdom was not with observation; when he ascended to heaven, he was made or declared Lord and Christ, and was crowned with glory and honour;... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 93:1

The Lord reigneth - He continues to govern every thing he has created; and he is every way qualified to govern all things, for he is clothed with majesty and with strength - dominion is his, and he has supreme power to exercise it; and he has so established the world that nothing can be driven out of order; all is ruled by him. Nature is his agent: or rather, nature is the sum of the laws of his government; the operations carried on by the Divine energy, and the effects resulting from those... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 93:1

Verse 1 1Jehovah hath reigned We here see what I have lately adverted to, that in the power of God there is exhibited to us matter of confidence; for our not investing God with the power which belongs to him, as we ought to do, and thus wickedly despoiling him of his authority, is the source of that fear and trembling which we very often experience. This, it is true, we dare not do openly, but were we well persuaded of his invincible power, that would be to us an invincible support against all... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 93:1

The Lord reigneth; rather, is become King ( ἐβασίλευσεν , LXX .); comp. Psalms 10:16 ; Psalms 47:6 ; Psalms 96:10 ; Psalms 97:1 , etc. God is regarded as having for a time laid aside, or hidden, his sovereignty, but as now at length coming forward and inaugurating the theocracy. The writer may have in his mind some recent manifestation of Divine power, or he may be anticipating the final establishment of the reign of Messiah. He is clothed with majesty; or, " he hath... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 93:1

Is God dead? Mrs. Beecher Stowe relates an incident which once gave to a speech which Frederick Douglas was delivering a startling and almost overwhelming power. Douglas was descanting, in his usual impassioned manner, upon the wrongs and miseries of the negro race. Warming with his subject, and waxing more and more indignant with their persecutors, he seemed to lose all patience, and at last said that they must henceforth trust in the strength of their own right arms, seeing that it was... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 93:1

The God of vengeance. To many it seems a strange prayer that God should show himself in this character. Therefore consider— I. WHAT VENGEANCE IS . 1 . It is not the same as revenge, a human, an evil, and often unjust thing. Revenge is what men delight in when they have received some injury at the hands of their fellow men, and hence is never right, but ever condemned of God. But: 2 . Vengeance is the avenging of public wrong, the upholding of justice and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 93:1

The King figure for God. Prayer book Version, "The Lord is King." The sentence would be more precisely rendered "has become King," for some particular manifestation of Jehovah's kingly rule was then occupying the psalmist's attention; but what that manifestation was cannot be discovered. Some associate the psalm with the returned captives, who, in some sense at least, re-established the theocracy. It represents the religious joy of the people in the setting up of Jehovah's kingdom, and the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 93:1

The completeness of Divine Creation. "The world also is established, that it cannot be moved." It is a remarkable illustration of the mistakes made in explaining the poetical figures of God's Word, that Calvin appealed to this passage as proving that the earth is motionless, which it is not. What the psalmist rejoices in is the completeness of the Divine creation. It needed no one to put to it a finishing touch. Man's handiwork always needs finishing off. We may illustrate by the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 93:1-5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 93:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 93:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 93:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 93:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 93:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 93:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 93:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 93:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 93:1-5

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