Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
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Gill's Exposition
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,.... His nuptial chamber, on which Elias writes (y),
"we call the garment (or canopy) spread over the head of the bridegroom and bride, supported…
Barnes' Notes
Their line - That is, of the heavens. The word used here - קו qav - means properly a cord, or line: (a) a measuring line, Eze 47:3; Job 38:5; Isa 44:13; and then (b) a cord or string as of a lyre or…
From the things that are seen every day by all the world the psalmist, in these verses, leads us to the consideration of the invisible things of God, whose being appears incontestably evident and…
Cambridge Bible
This proclamation is universal. The phrase Their line is gone out&c., is to be explained by Jer 31:39; Zec 1:16. The measuring line marks the limits of possession. The whole earth is the sphere…
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