Homilist Psalm 93:1-5 The LORD reigns, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, with which he has girded himself… The psalm teaches the following things concerning the rule of God over the world: — I. It is ALL-GLORIOUS. God "clothed!" Poetry has represented the universe as the costume of the mighty Maker. How inexpressibly magnificent is that costume! But His clothing is of no material fabric. His moral character is His garment, and that character is transcendently grand — "glorious in holiness." II. It is ALL-MIGHTY. "The Lord is clothed with strength." How strong in might must He be who sustains and manages the stupendous universe! How strong in intellect, to arrange and plan and balance the countless globes of space! How strong in purpose! No swerving from the original plan; the same from age to age. III. It is ALL-ENDURING (ver. 2). Under His Government all past generations of men lived and died, and all coming ones, down to the last, will be the subjects of His Almighty rule. IV. It is ALL-VICTORIOUS (vers. 3, 4). What within the whole range of human vision or experience is more sublimely awful than the sea when the tempest has lashed it into fury, when its waters rise like lofty mountains, and fight and foam like maddened lions? But these floods are only emblems of floods more terrible and dangerous — the floods of the wicked passions of wicked souls. But He is above those floods. V. It is ALL-HOLY (ver. 5). This "house" — where is it? Everywhere. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. |
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