Psalmen 135:6

6 Al wat den HEERE behaagt, doet Hij, in de hemelen, en op de aarde, in de zeeen en alle afgronden.

Psalmen 135:6 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 135:6

Whatsoever the Lord pleased, [that] did he
In creation, producing into being what creatures he thought fit; in providence, doing according to his will in heaven and in earth; in grace, predestinating men to grace and glory, according to the good pleasure of his will, and calling by his grace whom he pleased: so Christ quickens whom he will; and the Spirit dispenses his gifts and grace severally to men as he pleases. Sovereignty, or acting according to will and pleasure, is peculiar to the Lord; the heavens, the sun, moon, and stars, are at his direction, and act by the laws of creation, which are at his control; angels do his will, and not their own: the most arbitrary and despotic princes cannot do everything they please; but the Lord can and does, even everything;

in heaven and in earth, in the seas and all deep places;
in the formation of them, and filling them with inhabitants, and fitting them to perform the several ends and uses for which they were designed; as well as performing many wonderful things in them out of the ordinary course of nature, as did our Lord, or as were done when he was here on earth: a wonderful star appeared in the heavens, which guided the wise men to the place of his birth; unusual voices were heard from heaven at his baptism, transfiguration, and other times; the Spirit, with his extraordinary gifts, descended from hence after his ascension thither: surprising miracles were done by him on earth; the great work of redemption was finished here, where he glorified his divine Father; and throughout it he sent his apostles to publish his everlasting Gospel. He did wonders in the mighty waters; more than once he made the boisterous sea a calm, and walked upon the surface of it: and as of old he broke up the fountains of the great deep, and drowned the world; and at another time dried up the sea, and led his people through the depths, as through a wilderness; so he will hereafter bind the old serpent the devil, and cast him into the abyss, into the great deep, into the bottomless pit; where he will continue during the thousand years' reign of Christ with his saints.

Psalmen 135:6 In-Context

4 Want de HEERE heeft Zich Jakob verkoren, Israel tot Zijn eigendom.

5 Want ik weet, dat de HEERE groot is, en dat onze Heere boven alle goden is.

6 Al wat den HEERE behaagt, doet Hij, in de hemelen, en op de aarde, in de zeeen en alle afgronden.

7 Hij doet dampen opklimmen van het einde der aarde; Hij maakt de bliksemen met den regen; Hij brengt den wind uit Zijn schatkameren voort.

8 Die de eerstgeborenen van Egypte sloeg, van den mens af tot het vee toe.