Verse 6
"He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered; The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were as of old."
"He measured the earth ... drove asunder the nations ..." Some thirty-two kingdoms of Canaan were defeated in order for God to re-populate the land with Israel. God's standing and measuring the earth appears to be a reference to the deliberate purpose and full intention before the event to remove the Canaanites and settle Israel in the place of them.
"Eternal mountains were scattered . . . everlasting hills did bow ..." These are metaphors for God's destruction of institutions and nations that had existed for ages, reaching all the way back to the great deluge. As throughout, the background of such declarations was anchored in God's mighty deliverance of Israel from slavery and their settlement in Canaan.
"His goings were as of old ..." This means, "As God acted of old, so he acts now. The ancient ways of acting are His (Proverbs 31:27)."[19]
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