Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
This great and wide sea - The original is very emphatic: zeh haiyam gadol urechab yadayim , "This very sea, great and extensive of hands." Its waters, like arms, encompassing all the terrene parts of the globe. I suppose the psalmist was within sight of the Mediterranean when he wrote these words.
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