Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 76:4

4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey .

O God: To whom he directeth his Speech here, as also v. 6, 7, 8.

Either, 1. Than the greatest Kings and Empires of the Earth, which in Prophetical Writings are oft Compared to Mountains, as Psal. 46. 2, 3. Isa. 41. 15. Ier. 51. 25. Hab. 3. 6. And they are called Mountains of prey; because then they generally were Established by Tyranny, and maintained by preying upon their own Subjects, or other inferior Kingdoms. Or▪ 2. (Which amounts to the same thing) than the most powerful Enemies of thy People, upon whom they used, and now desired and expected to prey: Such Persons being oft expressed by the name of Mountains, as Psal. 144. 5. [illegible: 1+ letters]eth. 4. 7. &c.