“There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.”
The poetic description that the earth shook and quaked and the foundations of the mountains trembled because God was angry portrays divine response in cosmic terms. The earthquake imagery suggests that creation itself convulses in response to divine action. The mention of God's anger establishes that God responds with passion and decisive opposition to the speaker's enemies. This verse depicts divine intervention as affecting all creation.
Church Fathers on Psalms 18:8
To the end, for the servant of the Lord, David himself. 1. That is, for the strong of hand, Christ in His Manhood. “The words of this song which he spoke to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him out of the hands of his enemies, and of the hand of Saul; and he said, On the day when the Lord delivered him out of the hands of his enemies and of the hand of Saul:” namely, the king of the Jews, whom they had demanded for themselves. 1 Samuel 8:5 For as “David” is said…
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