Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
He maketh . . . calm—or, "to stand to stillness," or "in quiet." Instead of acts of temple-worship, those of the synagogue are here described, where the people with the
assembly—or session of elders, convened for reading, singing, prayer, and teaching.
Here are set forth the perils of seafaring, futility of man's, and efficiency of God's, help.
go . . . sea—alluding to the elevation of the land at the coast.
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