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This short psalm sets forth the honour of the kingdom of God among men, to his glory, the terror of his enemies, and the comfort of all his loving subjects. It relates both to the kingdom of his providence, by which he upholds and governs the world, and especially to the kingdom of his grace, by which he secures the church, sanctifies and preserves it. The administration of both these kingdoms is put into the hands of the Messiah, and to him, doubtless, the prophet here hears witness, and to his kingdom, speaking of it as present, because sure; and because, as the eternal Word, even before his incarnation he was Lord of all. Concerning God's kingdom glorious things are here spoken. I. Have other kings their royal robes? So has he, Ps 93:1. II. Have they their thrones? So has he, Ps 93:2. III. Have they their enemies whom they subdue and triumph over? So has he, Ps 93:3,4. IV. Is it their honour to be faithful and holy? So it is his, Ps 93:5. In singing this psalm we forget ourselves if we forget Christ, to whom the Father has given all power both in heaven and in earth.
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The Glory and Majesty of God
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神的荣耀与威严
¹ 耶和华作王，他以威严为衣穿上；耶和华以能力穿上，以能力束腰。世界就坚定，不得动摇。
² 你的宝座从太初立定；你从亘古就有。
³ 耶和华啊，大水扬起，大水扬起声音，大水扬起波浪。
⁴ 耶和华在高处大有能力，胜过诸水的响声，胜过洋海的大浪。
⁵ 耶和华啊，你的法度极为确实；你的殿永称为圣，合宜。
在神的存在之外，我们最当确信并思想的，莫过于神的主权——耶和华是神，这位神作王（诗 93:1）。他不但是按公义作王，是一切人物的所有者与主宰，更在事实上作王——按自己旨意的谋略指引、支配一切受造之物与他们一切的行动。这在本文及许多诗篇中称颂：耶和华作王。 这是福音教会之歌，是得荣耀教会之歌（启 19:6）：哈利路亚！主我们的神，全能者作王了。 此处我们看见他如何作王。
一、耶和华作王，荣耀地作王：他以威严为衣穿上。 地上君王的威严与神可畏的威严相比，不过是萤火之光比太阳——太阳在全力而出之时。神国的仇敌虽然强大可畏？我们不要惧怕他们，因神的威严必使他们的黯然失色。
二、他作王，有权能地作王。他不但如宫中的君王以威严为衣，更如营中的将帅以能力为衣。他有充足的支持他的伟大，使之真正可畏。看他不但披朝服，更披铠甲。能力与威严都是他的衣服。 他凡事都能，在他没有不可能。1. 这能力是他自己束腰的——不从他者而来，其执行也不靠他者；他自能力于己，并随己意行。我们不要惧怕那借来又有限的人的权能，倒要惧怕那有权杀灭并丢在地狱里的。2. 因这权能，世界才存立至今日。世界也得坚定——它起初因神创造的权能而立，那时他将其建立在海上；它如今仍因那托住万有的护理而如此，那护理是继续的创造；它如此坚定，以致他虽将地悬在虚空（伯 26:7），地却不得动摇；一切照他的命存到今日。请注意，大自然的能力与常规的保存，功劳当归给大自然之主；我们日日蒙其益，若不将荣耀归他，便是大怠慢忘恩了。神虽以威严为衣，却仍俯就眷顾这下界，治理其事；他既坚定了世界，必更坚定他的教会，使她不能动摇。
三、他作王，永远地作王（诗 93:2）：你的宝座从太初立定。 1. 神治理世界的权利，乃基于他创造世界；那赐世界存在的，无疑可赐世界律法，所以他治理的资格无可争辩：你的宝座立定——毫无瑕疵的资格。又是古远的：它从太初立定，从时间起头，在任何别的治理、执政、掌权建立之前；当一切别的治理、执政、掌权都被废去之时，它仍必存留（林前 15:24）。2. 他治理的全部行政，在创世之前的永远旨意中已定妥；因他行一切事都照自己在自己里面所定的旨意；护理的战车从铜山之间——就是那如永存诸山固定的谕旨——之间下来（亚 6:1）：你从亘古就有，所以你的宝座从太初立定；因神自己既从亘古就有，他的宝座与其一切裁定也就如此；因为在一位永恒的心思里，不能没有永恒的思想。
四、他作王，胜利地作王，诗 93:3,4。我们在此有，1. 设想一场威胁的风暴：耶和华啊，大水扬起！（这话是对神自己陈述）大水扬起声音——这话意味着惊恐；不，它们扬起波浪——这话意味着实在的危险。这话喻指澎湃的大海——恶人就被比作这样的海（赛 57:20）。外邦争闹（诗 2:1），图谋毁坏教会，要如洪水淹没她，如船在海中沉没。教会被称为被风浪颠簸的（赛 54:11），不虔敬人的洪流使圣徒惧怕（诗 18:4）。这话也可应用在我们自己心中因情欲与恐惧得势而起的翻腾——它使灵魂紊乱，几乎要推翻其中的恩典与安慰；但主若在那里作王，连风与海也必听从他。2. 在这场风暴中抛下不动摇的锚（诗 93:4）：耶和华自己在高处大有能力。 让这话坚定我们的心：（1）神在高处，在它们之上——这表明他的安全（它们不能触及他，诗 29:10），也表明他的主权；它们受他治理，被他所操纵，在它们反叛之处被克服（出 18:11）。（2）他大有能力，作比诸水的响声更奇妙的事；它们不能扰乱他的安息或治理；它们不能挫败他的设计与旨意。请留意，教会仇敌的能力不过是如诸水的响声；声音大，实质少。埃及王法老不过是声音（耶 46:17）。教会的朋友通常受惊多于受害。神比这响声更有能力；他能保守他百姓的利益不被这许多的水毁坏，又能保守他百姓的心不被其响声所惊吓。他若乐意，就能为教会吩咐平安（诗 65:7），为灵魂吩咐平安（赛 26:3）。请注意，大耶和华无限制的主权与不可抗拒的权能，对神的百姓面对世上的一切响声与骚乱时是大鼓励（诗 46:1,2）。
五、他作王，凭真理与圣洁作王，诗 93:5。1. 他一切的应许无可侵犯地信实：你的法度极为确实。 神既能保护他的教会，也对所应许她的安全与胜利信实。他的话已发，一切圣徒都可倚靠。凡论弥赛亚国度的预言，到了时候必确然应验。那旧约圣徒的信心与盼望所建立的法度，极为确实，不会使他们失望。2. 他一切的百姓当诚实地纯洁：耶和华啊，你的殿永称为圣，合宜。 神的教会就是他的殿；那是圣殿，从罪中洗净，由神献为圣，并用以事奉他。它的圣洁就是它的美（再没有比效法神的形像、完全奉献归他的尊荣更配圣徒的了），也是它的力量与安全；正是神殿的圣洁保守她免受许多水与其响声之害。何处有纯洁，何处就必有平安。时尚会变，一个时候合宜的，另一个时候未必如此；但圣洁永远合宜于神的殿与他的家，以及属他的人；它永远得体；再没有比不圣洁更不相宜于这位圣洁之神敬拜者的了。
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The Glory and Majesty of God
¹ The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
² Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
³ The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
⁴ The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
⁵ Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
Next to the being of God there is nothing that we are more concerned to believe and consider than God's dominion, that Jehovah is God, and that this God reigns (Ps 93:1), not only that he is King of right, and is the owner and proprietor of all persons and things, but that he is King in fact, and does direct and dispose of all the creatures and all their actions according to the counsel of his own will. This is celebrated here, and in many other psalms: The Lord reigns. It is the song of the gospel church, of the glorified church (Re 19:6), Hallelujah; the Lord God omnipotent reigns. Here we are told how he reigns.
I. The Lord reigns gloriously: He is clothed with majesty. The majesty of earthly princes, compared with God's terrible majesty, is but like the glimmerings of a glow-worm compared with the brightness of the sun when he goes forth in his strength. Are the enemies of God's kingdom great and formidable? Yet let us not fear them, for God's majesty will eclipse theirs.
II. He reigns powerfully. He is not only clothed with majesty, as a prince in his court, but he is clothed with strength, as a general in the camp. He has wherewithal to support his greatness and to make it truly formidable. See him not only clad in robes, but clad in armour. Both strength and honour are his clothing. He can do every thing, and with him nothing is impossible. 1. With this power he has girded himself; it is not derived from any other, nor does the executing of it depend upon any other, but he has it of himself and with it does whatsoever he pleases. Let us not fear the power of man, which is borrowed and bounded, but fear him who has power to kill and cast into hell. 2. To this power it is owing that the world stands to this day. The world also is established; it was so at first, by the creating power of God, when he founded it upon the seas; it is so still, by that providence which upholds all things and is a continued creation; it is so established that though he has hanged the earth upon nothing (Job 26:7) yet it cannot be moved; all things continue to this day, according to his ordinance. Note, The preserving of the powers of nature and the course of nature is what the God of nature must have the glory of; and we who have the benefit thereof daily are very careless and ungrateful if we give him not the glory of it. Though God clothes himself with majesty, yet he condescends to take care of this lower world and to settle its affairs; and, if he established the world, much more will he establish his church, that it cannot be moved.
III. He reigns eternally (Ps 93:2): Thy throne is established of old. 1. God's right to rule the world is founded in his making it; he that gave being to it, no doubt, may give law to it, and so his title to the government is incontestable: Thy throne is established; it is a title without a flaw in it. And it is ancient: it is established of old, from the beginning of time, before any other rule, principality, or power was erected, as it will continue when all other rule, principality, and power shall be put down, 1Co 15:24. 2. The whole administration of his government was settled in his eternal counsels before all worlds; for he does all according to the purpose which he purposed in himself; The chariots of Providence came down from between the mountains of brass, from those decrees which are fixed as the everlasting mountains (Zec 6:1): Thou art from everlasting, and therefore thy throne is established of old; because God himself was from everlasting, his throne and all the determinations of it were so too; for in an eternal mind there could not but be eternal thoughts.
IV. He reigns triumphantly, Ps 93:3,4. We have here, 1. A threatening storm supposed: The floods have lifted up, O Lord! (to God himself the remonstrance is made) the floods have lifted up their voice, which speaks terror; nay, they have lifted up their waves, which speaks real danger. It alludes to a tempestuous sea, such as the wicked are compared to, Isa 57:20. The heathen rage (Ps 2:1) and think to ruin the church, to overwhelm it like a deluge, to sink it like a ship at sea. The church is said to be tossed with tempests (Isa 54:11), and the floods of ungodly men make the saints afraid, Ps 18:4. We may apply it to the tumults that are sometimes in our own bosoms, through prevailing passions and frights, which put the soul into disorder, and are ready to overthrow its graces and comforts; but, if the Lord reign there, even the winds and seas shall obey him. 2. An immovable anchor cast in this storm (Ps 93:4): The Lord himself is mightier. Let this keep our minds fixed, (1.) That God is on high, above them, which denotes his safety (they cannot reach him, Ps 29:10) and his sovereignty; they are ruled by him, they are overruled, and, wherein they rebel, overcome, Ex 18:11. (2.) That he is mightier, does more wondrous things than the noise of many waters; they cannot disturb his rest or rule; they cannot defeat his designs and purposes. Observe, The power of the church's enemies is but as the noise of many waters; there is more of sound than substance in it. Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise, Jer 46:17. The church's friends are commonly more frightened than hurt. God is mightier than this noise; he is mighty to preserve his people's interests from being ruined by these many waters and his people's spirits from being terrified by the noise of them. He can, when he pleases, command peace to the church (Ps 65:7), peace in the soul, Isa 26:3. Note, The unlimited sovereignty and irresistible power of the great Jehovah are very encouraging to the people of God, in reference to all the noises and hurries they meet with in this world, Ps 46:1,2.
V. He reigns in truth and holiness, Ps 93:5. 1. All his promises are inviolably faithful: Thy testimonies are very sure. As God is able to protect his church, so he is true to the promises he has made of its safety and victory. His word is passed, and all the saints may rely upon it. Whatever was foretold concerning the kingdom of the Messiah would certainly have its accomplishment in due time. Those testimonies upon which the faith and hope of the Old-Testament saints were built were very sure, and would not fail them. 2. All his people ought to be conscientiously pure: Holiness becomes thy house, O Lord! for ever. God's church is his house; it is a holy house, cleansed from sin, consecrated by God, and employed in his service. The holiness of it is its beauty (nothing better becomes the saints than conformity to God's image and an entire devotedness to his honour), and it is its strength and safety; it is the holiness of God's house that secures it against the many waters and their noise. Where there is purity there shall be peace. Fashions change, and that which is becoming at one time is not so at another; but holiness always becomes God's house and family, and those who belong to it; it is perpetually decent; and nothing so ill becomes the worshippers of the holy God as unholiness.
本诗篇幅虽短,却陈明神在人中间其国度的尊荣——使他得荣耀,使仇敌惧怕,使一切爱他的臣民得安慰。它既论及他借以托住并管理世界的护理之国,更论及他借以保守教会、使之成圣并蒙保守的恩典之国。这两个国度的治理都交在弥赛亚手中,先知在此无疑正是为他及其国度作见证——他将其国度为现在之事而论,因其必然成就;又因他作为永生的道,即使在道成肉身之前便已为万有之主。论及神的国度,此处有荣耀之言:一、别王各有朝服吗?他也有(诗93:1);二、他们有宝座吗?他也有(诗93:2);三、他们有当制服并夸胜的仇敌吗?他也有(诗93:3,4);四、信实与圣洁是他们的尊荣吗?这也是他的尊荣(诗93:5)。我们唱这首诗时,若忘记了父已将天上地下所有的权柄都赐给他的基督,便是忘却了自己。