Psalms 33:9 - Exposition

For he spake, and it was done ; rather, and it was ; the thing of which he spake at once existed. See the passage of Genesis which Longinus thought so striking an instance of the sublime, "And God said, Let there be light; and there was light" ( Genesis 1:8 ). He commanded, and it stood fast ; literally, and it stood . God's lightest word, once uttered, is a standing law, to which nature absolutely conforms, and man ought to conform (comp. Psalms 119:90 , Psalms 119:91 ).