Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 136:12
With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy [endureth] forever.
12. O give thanks unto the Mighty One of Jacob (Psa 132:2; Psa 132:5), for &c.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
12. From Deu 4:34, &c.; cp. Exo 6:1; Exo 6:6.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
With a strong hand – A powerful hand; as by a hand that could grasp and subdue all that opposed.
And with a stretched-out arm – As if the arm were stretched out to strike with the utmost force, or to exert its utmost power. See Exo 6:6; Deu 4:34; Deu 5:15; Deu 7:19; Deu 26:8; Jer 32:21.
For his mercy … – The exertion of his power in delivering his people was the expression of a mercy, the consequences of which are to endure forever, for the results of that deliverance will never cease in the history of the world; will never cease in heaven.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
12. Compare similar expressions(Exo 3:20; Deu 4:34,&c.).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm,…. Exerting his power in a very open manner, and continuing it till he had effected the work; bringing his people out of Egypt, which is always ascribed to his great strength and mighty power, Ex 13:3. The redemption of the mystical Israel of God is by a mighty Redeemer, the Lord of hosts; who has redeemed them out of the hands of their enemies, that were stronger than they, and too strong for them: the conversion of them is by the power of the grace of God, even by the exceeding greatness of his power, and yet both acts of grace and mercy;
for his mercy [endureth] for ever; it was mercy put the Lord on stretching out his arm, and showing the strength of his right hand, in delivering Israel out of Egypt; and in his love and in his pity he redeemed them, Isa 63:9. It is owing to the tender mercies of our God, and is a performing the mercy promised to the fathers, that Christ, the dayspring from on high, was sent to visit and redeem us, Lu 1:68; and the regeneration, quickening, and conversion of sinners, are acts of mercy as well as of power, Eph 2:4.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Psa 136:12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
Ver. 12. And with a stretched out arm ] A metaphor from soldiers’ exercising their arms, with utmost might and sleight.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
hand . . . arm. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia (App-6).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Exo 6:6, Exo 13:14, Exo 15:6, Deu 11:2-4, Isa 51:9, Isa 51:10, Jer 32:21, Act 7:36
Reciprocal: Exo 3:19 – General Exo 6:1 – with a strong 1Ki 8:42 – thy strong hand Neh 1:10 – thy strong Psa 77:15 – with
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
136:12 With a strong hand, and with a {d} stretched out arm: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
(d) In doing such a work as was never done before, nor that any other could do.