Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 103:3
Verse 3. wytwyl[ µymb hrqmh hamekareh bammayim aliyothaiv. "Laying the beams of his chambers in the waters." The sacred writer expresses the wonderful nature of the air aptly, and regularly constructed, from various and flux elements, into one continued and stable series, by a metaphor drawn from the singular formation of the tabernacle, which, consisting of many and different parts, and easily reparable when there was need, was kept together by a perpetual juncture and contignation of them all together. The poet goes on: - wbwkr µyb[ µh hassem abim rechubo, hwr ypnk l[ ûlhmh ham[hall[ch al canph[y rxach.
"Making the clouds his chariot, Walking upon the wings of the wind." He had first expressed an image of the Divine Majesty, such as it resided in the holy of holies, discernible by a certain investiture of the most splendid light; he now denotes the same from that light of itself which the Divine Majesty exhibited, when it moved together with the ark, sitting on a circumambient cloud, and carried on high through the air. That seat of the Divine Presence is even called by the sacred historians, as its proper name, hbkrmh hammercabah, THE CHARIOT.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-9 - Every object we behold calls on us to bless and praise the Lord, who is great. His eternal power and Godhead are clearly shown by the thing which he hath made. God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. The Lord Jesus, the Son of his love, is the Light of the world.
Original Hebrew
המקרה 7136 במים 4325 עליותיו 5944 השׂם 7760 עבים 5645 רכובו 7398 המהלך 1980 על 5921 כנפי 3671 רוח׃ 7307
