Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 104:7
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
7. At thy rebuke they flee,
At the voice of thy thunder they haste away,
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
7, 8. The graphic imperfects are continued, picturing the process of the separation of land and water.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
At thy rebuke they fled – At thy command; or when thou didst speak to them. The Hebrew word also implies the notion of rebuke, or reproof, as if there were some displeasure or dissatisfaction. Pro 13:1; Pro 17:10; Ecc 7:5; Isa 30:17; Psa 76:6. It is as if God had been displeased that the waters prevented the appearing or the rising of the dry land, and had commanded them to hasten to their beds and channels, and no longer to cover the earth. The allusion is to Gen 1:9, and there is nowhere to be found a more sublime expression than this. Even the command, And God said, Let there be light; and there was light, so much commended by Longinus as an instance of sublimity, does not surpass this in grandeur.
At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away – They fled in dismay. The Hebrew word – chaphaz – contains the idea of haste, trepidation, consternation, alarm, as if they were frightened; Psa 31:22. God spake in tones of thunder, and they fled. It is impossible to conceive anything more sublime than this.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 7. At thy rebuke they fled] When God separated the waters which were above the firmament from those below, and caused the dry land to appear. He commanded the separation to take place; and the waters, as if instinct with life, hastened to obey.
At the voice of thy thunder] It is very likely God employed the electric fluid as an agent in this separation.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
At thy rebuke; upon thy severe command, Gen 1:9; which he calls a rebuke, to imply that there was something in that state of things which might seem to need reproof and correction, even that confusion of earth and water together, which therefore God amended in his second days work.
They fled; they immediately went to the place which God had allotted to them. Of thy thunder; of thy sovereign command, which as they could not but hear, so they durst not disobey. He ascribes sense and reason to inanimate creatures by a figure called prosopopaeia.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
At thy rebuke they fled,…. The depths of water that covered the earth fled, went off apace, when Christ, the essential Word, gave the word of command that they should; saying, “Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so”, Ge 1:9 and this being called a “rebuke”, suggests as if there was something amiss, irregular and disorderly, and to be amended; as if these waters were not in their proper place.
At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away; ran off with great precipitancy; just as a servant, when his master puts on a stern countenance, and speaks to him in a thundering, menacing manner, hastes away from him to do his will and work. This is an instance of the mighty power of Christ; and by the same power he removed the waters of the deluge; when they covered the earth, and the tops of the highest hills; and rebuked the Red sea, and it became dry land; and drove back the waters of Jordan for the Israelites to pass through; and who also rebuked the sea of Galilee when his disciples were in distress: and with equal ease can he and does he remove the depth of sin and darkness from his people at conversion; rebukes Satan, and delivers out of his temptations, when he comes in like a flood; and rebukes the waters of affliction when they threaten to overwhelm; who are his servants, and come when he bids them come, and go when he bids them go.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
7. At thy rebuke they fled There is a harshness in the words “rebuke,” voice of thy thunder, and in the terror implied in the terms “fled,” hasted away, as if they deemed that God was displeased at them, because, says Hengstenberg, “God is the enemy of disorder, and because the waters stood in an attitude of hostility to the realization of his purpose to manifest his glory on the earth.” This also favours the hypothesis that the condition of the earth’s surface was that of disorder and desolation, by reason of the undue prevalence of the waters of the ocean, which now give way to the present order of things. See the original fiat, Gen 1:9, and Compare Psa 106:9; Nah 1:4; Psa 18:15; Isa 50:2
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Ver. 7. At thy rebuke they fled ] At thy word of command and angry countenance, overawing that raging and ranging creature: so Christ rebuked the winds and waves.
They hasted away
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
At thy: Gen 8:1, Pro 8:28, Mar 4:39
they fled: Psa 114:3-7
Reciprocal: Job 12:15 – he sendeth Job 36:29 – the noise Job 37:2 – the noise Psa 18:13 – thundered Psa 76:6 – At thy Jer 51:16 – he uttereth Nah 1:4 – rebuketh