Psalms 93:3

“Let them praise thy great and terrible name, etc.] All people, especially the Lord’s people; those that dwell in Zion, where his name is great, in high esteem, venerable, and valued; as his name Jesus, or Saviour, is amiable and lovely to his saints; and his name, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, is terrible to his enemies: for it is holy; his name is holy, as well as reverend and great; his nature is holy, both divine and human; holy in all his ways and works; and is holiness to his people, and therefore worthy of praise; holiness is the ground and foundation of his praise from the seraphim, (<230603>Isaiah 6:3).”

“The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice - The word here rendered “floods,” means properly rivers, and then it may be applied to any waters. The word voice here refers to the noise of raging waters when they are agitated by the winds, or when they dash on the shore. See the notes at Psalms 42:7. The floods lift up their waves - As if they would sweep everything away. The allusion here is to some calamity or danger which might, in its strength and violence, be compared with the wild and raging waves of the ocean. Or if it refers literally to the ocean in a storm, then the psalm may have been the reflections of the author as he stood on the shore of the sea, and…”

“Floods - The enemies of thy kingdom. Psalms 93:5”

“93:3-4 God’s victory over natural chaos gives the psalmist confidence that the Lord will also defeat his present enemies (cp. Jer 46:8; 47:2).”

“The floods: Psa 18:4, Psa 69:1, Psa 69:2, Psa 69:14-16; Isa 17:12, Isa 17:13; Jer 46:7, Jer 46:8; Jon 2:3; Rev 12:15; Rev 17:15 lifted: Psa 96:11, Psa 98:8; Isa 55:12 the floods lift: Psa 2:1-3, Psa 107:25, Psa 107:26, Psa 124:3-5; Act 4:25-27 Psalms 93:4”

“All the raging of the world, therefore, will not be able to hinder the progress of the kingdom of God and its final breaking through to the glory of victory. The sea with its mighty mass of waters, with the constant unrest of its waves, with its ceaseless pressing against the solid land and foaming against the rocks, is an emblem of the Gentile world alienated from and at enmity with God; and the rivers (floods) are emblems of worldly kingdoms, as the Nile of the Egyptian ( Jer 44:7.), the Euphrates of the Assyrian ( Isa 8:7.), or more exactly, the Tigris, swift as an arrow, of the Assyrian, and the tortuous Euphrates of the Babylonian empire ( Isa 27:1). These rivers, as the poet says…”