3. The floods have lifted up, O Lord. People have raged like angry waves of the sea, but vain has been their
tumult. Observe that the psalmist turns to the Lord when he sees the billows
foam, and hears the breakers roar; he does not waste his breath by talking to
the waves, or to violent men; but like Hezekiah he spreads the blasphemies of
the wicked before the Lord. The floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. These repetitions are needed for the sake both
of the poetry and the music, but they also suggest the frequency and the
violence of wicked assaults upon the government of God, and the repeated
defeats which they sustain. Sometimes people are furious in words—they lift up
their voice, and at other times they rise to acts of violence—they lift
up their waves; but the Lord has control over them in either case.
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