6. Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains. He, as it were, fixed them in their sockets, and preserved them from
falling by earthquake or storm. Philosophers of the forget-God school are too
much engrossed with their laws of upheaval to think of the Upheaver. Their
theories of volcanic action and glacier action are frequently used as bolts and
bars to shut the Lord out of his own world. Our poet is of another mind, and
sees God’s hand setting Alps and Andes on their bases, and therefore he sings
in his praise. Being girded with power. The Lord is so himself, and he
therefore casts a girdle of strength around the hills. The poetry is such as
would naturally suggest itself to anyone familiar with mountain scenery; power
everywhere meets you, and God is there, the author and source of all. If we
wish for true establishment, we must go to the strong for strength.
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