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EXPOSITION.
So tremendous was the shock of God's assault in arms that
the order of nature was changed, and the bottoms of rivers and
seas were laid bare. "_The channels of waters were seen_;" and
the deep cavernous bowels of the earth were upheaved till "_the
foundations of the world were discovered_." What will not
Jehovah's "_rebuke_" do? If "_the blast of the breath of thy
nostrils_," O Lord, be so terrible, what must thine arm be? Vain
are the attempts of men to conceal anything from him whose word
unbars the deep, and lifts the doors of earth from their hinges!
Vain are all hopes of resistance, for a whisper of his voice
makes the whole earth quail in abject terror.
EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS.
Verse 15.--"_The foundations of the world were
discovered_;" i.e., such large and deep chasms, or apertures,
were made by the violence of the earthquake, as one might almost
see the very foundations, or as Jonah calls them, _the bottoms_,
or rather, _the extremities of the mountains_, in the bottom of
the sea. #Jon 2:6|.--^Samuel Chandler.
Verse 15.--The Lord interposed with the same notoriety of
his presence, as when the waters of the sea were driven back by a
strong east wind, and the deep turned into dry ground (#Ex
14:21,22|), to give the Israelites a safe passage out of their
thraldom, and to drown the Egyptians.--^Henry Hammond.