These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season (see Psalms 104:14 , Psalms 104:23 ). As cattle have "grass," and lions "meat," from God, so every kind of animal receives from the same source its proper food. read more
Absolute dependence upon God. "These wait all upon thee, that thou mayest give them their meat in due season." All vegetable and animal life depends on appropriate food; and though sometimes the food is at the creature's hand, it usually has to be sought. God has arranged the economy of nature so that each creature is skilled to find its own food. The dependence of creation on the Creator may be made effective to an audience by an illustrative instance such as the following: The fox has... read more
That thou givest them they gather; literally, thou givest to them; they gather. Thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good; or, "are satisfied with good" (Kay, Revised Version). read more
God gives-we gather: harvest thanksgiving. I. GOD 'S GIFT IN THE HARVEST . God gives: 1 . The soil. 2 . The seed. 3 . The forces which make the seed extract the virtues of the soil. 4 . The sunshine, the rain, and the wind, which minister to the growth of the blade, and which ripen the grain. 5 . The intelligence which enables us to cultivate the ground, to acquire the art of agriculture ( Isaiah 28:26 ). II. OUR HUMAN SHARE IN IT . We... read more
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled. If God withdraws the light of his countenance from any living thing, instantly it feels the loss. It is "troubled," cast down, confounded (comp. Psalms 30:7 ). Thou takest away their breath, they die. As the living things have life from God, so they have death from him. Not one of them perishes but he knows it, and causes it or allows it (see Matthew 10:29 ). And return to their dust. Return, i.e; to the dead matter out of which they were... read more
Thou sendest forth thy spirit; or, thy breath. As God "breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life" ( Genesis 2:7 ), so it is an effluence from him that gives life to every living thing. They are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth. As after the Deluge (see Genesis 7:4 ; Genesis 8:17 ). read more
Voices of the sloping. We are following a good Bible precedent, as welt as yielding to an almost irresistible suggestion, when we seek to listen awhile to some of these teachings of God which he addresses to us through the spring. The references to this season are frequent in the pages of Scripture. They tell of the sowing and the seed time, the springing of the corn, and the varied voices, scenes, and processes of the spring. He who wrote that sixty-fifth psalm had often noticed the earth... read more
The spiritual spring. The natural is as the spiritual— I. IS WHAT IT IS . An awakening from seeming death. In regard to the soul, St. Paul speaks of its condition ere its spring as actually "dead." Certainly to all appearances it was so. But when the grace of God comes to the soul, then it awakes, as doth the earth in spring. There had been long preparation for it. Christ uses all manner of means to accomplish this. It is all his work. II. IN WHAT IT POSSESSES . New... read more
Renewed life: a spring sermon. I. SPRING AWAKENS IN US THE SENSE OF LIFE . The life of nature is a symbol of the spiritual renewal of the Christian. The renewal of the heart, the conscience, and the will. II. AWAKENS THE SENSE OF BEAUTIFUL LIFE . What a banquet for the eye! what fragrance, as if an angel swung a censor full of the odours of celestial flowers! how the ear is regaled! The life of the believer in Christ ought to be the most... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 104:26
There go the ships. These may seem out of place among the works of God. But are they not his, in a certain sense? Did he not contemplate them when he made the sea, and make it to some extent for them? And did he not give men wisdom to invent and perfect them? There is that leviathan. "Leviathan" is here probably the whale, which may in early times have frequented the Mediterranean. Which thou hast made to play therein ; or, to play with him. So the LXX . ( ἐμπαίζειν αὐτῷ );... read more