“He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.”
The continuing poetic description that smoke ascended from God's nostrils and fire from His mouth devoured and coals were kindled employs anthropomorphic imagery of divine wrath. The smoke and fire imagery suggests overwhelming destructive force emanating from God. The devouring suggests comprehensive destruction of enemies. This verse intensifies the portrait of divine judgment through escalating violent imagery.
Church Fathers on Psalms 18:9
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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