For, lo, he that formeth the mountains
These words are a description of the glorious Person, "thy God"
and Saviour, to be met; he is the Creator of all things, that
formed the mountains, and so was before them, as in ( Proverbs
8:25 Proverbs
8:26 ) ; and able to surmount and remove all mountains of
difficulties that lay in his way of working out salvation for his
people: and createth the wind;
or "spirit"; not the Holy Spirit, which is uncreated; but either
angels, whom he makes spirits; or the spirit and soul of man he
is the Creator of; or rather the natural wind is meant, which is
his creature, he holds in his fists, restrains and commands, at
his pleasure, ( Matthew 8:26
Matthew
8:27 ) ; and declareth unto man what [is] his
thought;
not what is man's thought, though he knows what is in man without
any information, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents
of the heart, and can reveal them to men, and convince them that
he knows them, ( Matthew 9:4 ) ; but
rather the thought of God, the meditation of his heart,
concerning the salvation of men; his thoughts of peace, which are
the deep things of God, and which Christ, lying in the bosom of
his Father, was privy to, and has declared, ( John 1:18 ) . The
Septuagint and Arabic versions, reading the words wrong, render
them, "declaring to men his Christ"; which, though true of God,
is not the sense of this clause. The Targum is,
``what are his works F24?''his works of creation, providence, redemption, and grace: that maketh the morning darkness;
``to declared to men what are his works, to prepare light for the righteous as the morning light, who goes and prepares darkness for earth;''the Lord, the God of hosts, [is] his name;