Psalms 148:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Praise ye him, sun and moon— The Psalmist proceeds to call upon the inanimate part of the creation, as well as upon all living creatures, to praise the Lord; who hath set forth his most transcendent wisdom, power, and magnificence, in such a variety of stupendous works, that there is not the smallest of them but ministers such matter of praise and admiration to those who attentively consider them, that they cannot but wish, with the Psalmist here, that every one of them were able to tell us how much skill he hath shewn in their contrivance; or that we were able to find it out and fully comprehend it. Thus the Psalmist is to be understood, when he calls upon all creatures to praise the Lord. By the expression of heavens of heavens, in the next verse, is not meant, as usually, the highest heaven, the place of God's throne; but here, after the sun, moon, and stars of light, by which the whole body and sphere of the heavens are signified, follow next the heavens of heavens, and the waters above the heavens; where, as, in all reason, heavens of heavens, are but the highest of those heavens, above some part of which the waters are to be placed; so, in case the waters be no higher than that region of air where the clouds are, the uppermost regions of the body of air must be resolved to be what is here meant by the heavens of heavens.