Psalms 19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments
  • Psalms 19:1-14 open_in_new

    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 (see Job 3:3-10 *).

    Psalms 19:3 is a prosaic gloss to guard against any idea that the heavenly bodies speak in the literal sense.

    Psalms 19:4. for line read voice. In them: i.e. in the heavens, but the text is probably corrupt.

    XIX. B. Psalms 19:7-13. An Independent Poem in Praise of the Law. In Psalms 19:13 follow mg. The proud are bad Jews.