“ The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. ”
The heavens declare the glory of God - They announce, proclaim, make known his glory. The word heavens here refers to the material heavens as they appear to the eye - the region of the sun, moon,...
"To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David." The (a) heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. (a) He reproaches man for his ingratitude, seeing the heavens, which are...
XIX. A. Psalms 19:1-6 . The Revelation of God in Nature. A fragment of a longer poem. Day and night are pictured as living beings who hand on the tradition of God's creative act from age to age (s...
To the chief Musician. See App-64. The changes from 2 Samuel 22 were made when David handed the Psalm over for general use in public worship. The position of this Psalm in the Structure (p. 721)...
1. The heavens declare the glory of God. (444) I have already said, that this psalm consists of two parts, in the first of which David celebrates the glory of God as manifested in his works...
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. The heavens declare the glory of God - Literally, The heavens number out the gl...
The creatures shew God's glory; the word, his grace. David prayeth for grace. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David. Title. — לדוד מזמור למנצח lamnatseach mizmor ledavid. The author in t...
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Psalms 19:1-14 .-The book of nature ( Psalms 19:1-6 ), and that of Revelation ( Psalms 19:7-10 ), alike have as...
The firmament ] the sky, conceived of as a solid canopy: see Genesis 1:6 .
The heavens declare. — Better, the heavens are telling. The poet is even now gazing at the sky, not philosophising on a familiar natural phenomenon, nor is he merely enjoying beauty. Not only is...
Psalms 19:1-14 Is this originally one psalm or bits of two, pieced together to suggest a comparison between the two sources of knowledge of God, which the authors did not dream of? The affirmative...
the Works and the Word of God Psalms 19:1-14 This is the “Psalm of the Two Books”-Nature and Scripture. If Psalms 8:1-9 were written at night, Psalms 19:1-14 was surely written by day. In...
The burden of this psalm is the twofold revelation of Jehovah. He is revealed in Nature and in law. Yet in Nature Jehovah is revealed as God and not by those especial qualities suggested by the great...
CONTENTS We have here another hymn, if not to the victories of Jesus in the works of grace, yet to his glory as manifested in the works of creation, and in the gospel of his salvation. In the former...
Psalms 19 Proper Psalm for Christmas Day ( Morning ). Psalms 19-21 = Day 4 ( Morning ).
The heavens declare the glory of God ,.... By which we are to understand not the heavens literally taken, though these with the firmament are the handiworks of God, and do declare the glory of his p...
Psalms 19:1 «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. » The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. The heavens declare the glory of God ] The world, saitb Cle...
The heavens , &c. To magnify the power, wisdom, and goodness of the Creator, the psalmist begins with the works of creation, and, amidst the immensity of them, singles out those which are most c...
God's Glory Seen in the Creation. To the chief musician. A psalm of David. 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; a...
PSALM 19 THE ARGUMENT The design of this Psalm is to adore and magnify the name of God, for the discovery of his wisdom, and power, and goodness, both by his great and glorious works of creation an...
God Speaks Through Nature ( Psalms 19:1-6 ). ‘The heavens declare the glory of God,' And the firmament reveals his handiwork. Day to day utters speech, And night to night shows knowledge.' The...
INTRODUCTION “This psalm instructs its readers in the glory and goodness of God; first, by directing their contemplation to the structure of the heavens, to the course of the sun, and to the kindly...
Psalms 19:1-6 Part First. The praise of the Divine glory in the natural world of creation is first general (vers. 1-4) and then particular (vers. 4-6). I. The whole visible expanse of sky is the...
This Psalm has the same subject as Psalms 119:1 . Both of them are full of praise of God's Word. God has written two books for us to read,-the volume of the Creation and the volume of the Sacred Scr...
Psalms 19:4 . Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. The LXX, φθογγος, phthoggos. Vulgate, sonus, their sound; the music of their voice. The...
The heavens declare the glory of God. The glory of God Nature exists not for a merely natural, but for a moral end; not for what it is, but for what it says or declares. I. What nature tells...
EXPOSITION THE nineteenth psalm is one of meditative praise. The psalmist, looking abroad over the whole world, finds two main subjects for his eulogy—first, the glorious fabric of the materia...
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth, is announcing or extolling, His handiwork. The entire universe reflects the majesty of God's creative power, and therefore all natur...
Daniel 12:3 ; Genesis 1:14 ; Genesis 1:15 ; Genesis 1:6-8 ; Isaiah 40:22-26 ; Jeremiah 10:11 ; Jeremiah 10:12 ; Psalms 115:16 ; Psalms 148:3 ; Psalms 148:4 ; Psalms 33:6 ; Psalms 8:3 ; P...
The heavens — They are as a legible book, wherein he that runs may read it. The glory — His eternal power and Godhead, his infinite wisdom and goodness. Firmament — Or, the expansion, all the vast...