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He stood; gave his presence with Joshua and others, as one that stood by while the work was done.
Measured: he divided to them their inheritance, and did this without toil or difficulty, his very presence with his people was enough to make it known what he allotted to them. The earth; the Promised Land.
He beheld; looked with a frowning countenance, with anger in his eye.
Drove asunder; cast them out, or caused them to flee, as many did out of that country; his eye did this, for he looked on them and did this.
The nations; the cursed nations.
The everlasting mountains were scattered; either literally understood, as Nah_1:5, and may relate to that the psalmist minds, Psa_114:4,6, when the whole mount, all the mountainous parts of Sinai, tremble, Exo_19:18, &c.; or figuratively, the state of these nations, seeming as immovable as mountains, yet soon shook and dissolved, before the rebuke of the Lord.
The perpetual hills did bow; an elegant immutation of the phrase, to illustrate and confirm the same thing.
His ways are everlasting; the wisdom, goodness, justice, holiness, faithfulness, and power of God, which he showeth in the methods of his governing his church and people, are everlasting, they are the same, and where the same circumstances concur the same effects of his power may be hoped for. So the prophet pursueth the argument; they are everlasting loving-kindnesses with which he embraceth his church.