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The praise itself now begins. כִּי in Psa 135:4 set forth the ground of the pleasant duty, and the כי that begins this strophe confirms that which warrants the summons out of the riches of the material existing for such a hymn of praise. Worthy is He to be praised, for Israel knows full well that He who hath chosen it is the God of gods. The beginning is taken from Psa 115:3, and Psa 135:7 from Jer 10:13 (Psa 51:16). Heaven, earth, and water are the three kingdoms of created things, as in Exo 20:4. נָשִׂיא signifies that which is lifted up, ascended; here, as in Jeremiah, a cloud. The meaning of בְּרָקִים לַמָּטָר עָשָׂה is not: He makes lightnings into rain, i.e., resolves them as it were into rain, which is unnatural; but either according to Zec 10:1 : He produces lightnings in behalf of rain, in order that the rain may pour down in consequence of the thunder and lightning, or poetically: He makes lightnings for the rain, so that the rain is announced (Apollinaris) and accompanied by them. Instead of מֹוצִא (cf. Psa 78:16; Psa 105:43), which does not admit of the retreating of the tone, the expression is מֹוצֵא, the ground-form of the part. Hiph. for plurals like מַחְצְרִים, מַחְלְמִים, מַעְזְרִים, perhaps not without being influenced by the וַיֹּוצֵא in Jeremiah, for it is not מֹוצֵא from מָצָא that signifies “producing,” but מֹוצִיא = מֵפִיק. The metaphor of the treasuries is like Job 38:22. What is intended is the fulness of divine power, in which lie the grounds of the origin and the impulses of all things in nature.