Part 2 of Psalm 104

Okay I left off last time because the Psalm gets much more involved than just some brief outline and I'm taking the time to put my studies aside to focus on my God. So are you ready?!

104:2 - light - refers to the first day of creation, Genesis 1.
104:3 - upper chambers. Vivid imagery for the heavly abode of God. In the singular, the Hebrew for this place refers to the upper-level od a house as in 2 Kings 1:2. Their waters - The waters above the tent from which, in the imagery of the OT, God gives the rain
104:4 - winds...flames of fire. The winds and lightening bolts of the thunderstomr are personified as the agents of God's purposes.
104:5-9 - The earth realm made secure.
104:5 earth. - Land in distinction from sky and seas, not the earth as a planet. Foundatoins - can never be moved, it will not give way.
104:10-18 - The earth a flourishing garden of lie - the center of the psalm and the focal point of the autghoer's contemplation of the creation.
104: 10-12 - The gift of water from below - watering the vines of Negev, the south of Israel's heartland.
104: 13-15 The gift of water from above.
104:13 - upper chambers
104: 16-18 - Well-watered Lebanon, with its great trees and its hordes of birds and alpine animals, the very epitome of God's earthly parkland.
104: 19-23 - The orderly cycles od life on earth, governed vy the moon and sun ( the fourt day of creaton).
104: 21, 23 lions...man. - The one (representing the animal world) lord of the night; the other, lord of the day.
104:24-26 - The nauticl realm below ( fifth day of creation). The reaklm of the sea is structually balanced with the celestal realm, as the other boundry to the realm of earth.
104: 26 - leviathan - fearsome mythological creatre of the deep is here portrayed as nothing more than God's harmles pet playing in the ocean. ( Ah the Lord has a great sense of humor!)
104:32- He is so muh greation than his creation that with a look or touch he could un-do it.


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Wow again a lot of information to take in. I'm moving on to the next part tomorrow. I think it is best to take time to really learn from what it is in the Word as we don't really know what God want to do with it until we reflect and meditate on it. ( Medtation - just thinking about something without distraction from other things.)

xoxo
Jess