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Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 19:1-14

Psalms 19:1-14 Chapter 19 is one of the beautiful favorite psalms where David does speak about how God does reveal Himself to man in nature.The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard ( Psalms 19:1-3 ).God is speaking to you every day, every night, through the world, the universe that He has created. The heavens are declaring... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 19:1-14

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 elegant Tertullian, in his apology for the christian religion, applies the same idea to the spread of the gospel. After stating to the emperor that their cities, their camps and castles, were full of christians, he asks, “In whom have all the nations of the earth believed, except in Christ? Not... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 19:1

Psalms 19:1The heavens declare the glory of God.The glory of GodNature 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 us to think of God.1. Nature reveals God. The race as a whole have heard the declaration of His eternal power and Godhead. In proportion as they have heard, adoring, they have risen in the scale of manhood.2. Nature declares the knowledge and power of God. The marks of mathematical and geometric law... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 19:1

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 Clement of Alexandria, is Dei Scriptura, the first Bible that God made for the institution of man. The heavens (here instanced as a chief part of that Mundi totius machina ) are compared to a scroll that is written, Revelation 6:14 . As in a horn book, which little ones carry, there be letters in a... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 19:1

The heavens: Psalms 8:3, Psalms 33:6, Psalms 115:16, Psalms 148:3, Psalms 148:4, Isaiah 40:22-Ezekiel :, Jeremiah 10:11, Jeremiah 10:12, Romans 1:19, Romans 1:20 the firmament: Rakeea, from raka, to stretch out, the expanse, not only containing the celestial bodies, but also the air, light, rain, dews, etc., all of which display the infinite power and wisdom of their Almighty Creator. Psalms 150:1, Psalms 150:2, Genesis 1:6-Ruth :, Genesis 1:14, Genesis 1:15, Daniel 12:3 Reciprocal: Genesis... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 19:1

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.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 space extended from the earth to the highest heavens, with all its goodly furniture. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 19:1

1. The heavens declare Publish, with the adsignification of praise; they celebrate, as the word often denotes. Glory of God The moral excellence of his nature. Numbers 14:20-21; John 11:40. Firmament The Hebrew רקיע , ( rakeea,) firmament, comes from רקע , ( raka,) to spread out. In the Old Testament the noun has the sense of expanse, and also of firmness, steadfastness. The latter idea comes to us through the Septuagint, στερεωμα , and the Vulgate firmamentum. It... read more