William Kelly Major Works Commentary - Psalms 104:1 - 104:35

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William Kelly Major Works Commentary - Psalms 104:1 - 104:35


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This is the connected and dependent outburst of praise, with a similar beginning ("of David" excepted), and here therefore in due place. The theme is Jehovah supreme over creation, the chiefdom in Col_1:15 asserted of Christ and this on evident and conclusive ground, because by (ἐν in virtue of) Him were created all things (τὰ π the universe), those in the heavens and those on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, etc. The whole of them has been created through Him and for Him; and He is before all things; and the universe by Him subsists together. As the preceding psalm celebrated what Jehovah-Messiah is to Israel, from the individual widening out and upward, so this definitely views creation blessed after long bondage and growing vanity through sin, but now delivered through the Second man. So the scriptures show, when sinners shall be consumed out of the earth and wicked persons be no more. This result rationalism deprecates irreverently and unintelligently as "a glow of passion." For man, not God, fills the unbelieving mind to the exclusion of His glory. But in the end of the age the darnel shall be rooted out, instead of growing together with the wheat as now. And this is meet and due to God: even those punished will own it vainly for their lot in that day.

This book closes with the next two psalms which are an evidently antithetical pair, each by a different route tending, and contributing, to the end of Jehovah, His mercy in saving Israel to His own praise.