Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

The dark mountains - Rather, “the mountains of twilight.” Judah is not walking on the safe highway, but on dangerous mountains: and the dusk…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

Give glory to the Lord your God. — Probably in the same sense as in Joshua 7:19 and John 9:24, perhaps also in Malachi 2:…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

The Prophet shows here more fully what we have stated—that the temperament of those with whom he had to deal was so refractory that it was necessar…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

Give glory to the Lord your God
By confessing sin to him; by humiliation for it before him; by believing what he says…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

As the bottle was fitted to hold the wine, so the people's sins made them vessels of wrath, fitted for God's judgments, with which they would be fi…

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

ThomasAquinas

13th Century
Catholic
13th Century

Here, he gives the application of the allegory, and on this topic, he makes two points.

  1. First, he applies the allegory to the puni…

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