They had not learned, as we have in modern times, to interpose unbending laws between the Creator and his works; and then, by giving inherent power to these laws, virtually to remove God away from his creation into an ethereal extramundane sphere of repose and happiness. Saint Chrysostom conjectures that the main intention of the greatest part of this Psalm consists in the discovery of divine providence, which manifests itself in the motions and courses of the heavenly bodies, concerning which the psalmist speaketh much, from Psalms 19:1-7 . These 'scrolls' tell forth the wonders of His name. They were fashioned to rule the day and establish the night, as a perpetual reminder of God's eternal goodness and His immeasurable greatness. Copyright © 2021, Bible Study Tools. This article uses Hebrew (Masoretic) psalm numbering. 1 The heavens declare the glory of God. THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD. In the expanse above us God flies, as it were, his starry flag to show that the King is at home, and hangs out his escutcheon that atheists may see how he despises their denunciations of him. Thus praise and prayer are mingled, and he who here sings the work of God in the world without, pleads for a work of grace in himself within. So St. Paul, Romans 1:20 : God's invisible things, as his eternal power and Godhead, "are clearly seen" by the creation of the world, "being understood by the things that are made." We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Division. The heavens declare this, and the firmament shows this, and the day tells this, and the night certifies this, the sound of the thunder proclaims, as it were, this in all lands, and the words of the whistling wind unto the ends of the world. The magnificence of the immense universe declares the wonderful handiwork of our Creator God. The heavens declare the glory of God. Article Images Copyright © 2021 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. All rights reserved. The Psalmist goes on to say in verses 2-6 that the heavens âreveal knowledge.â Godâs glory can ⦠Psalms 19:1-6 NIV. God the Holy Ghost must illuminate us, or all the suns in the milky way never will. It's done in a fascinating way. Psalm 19:1 in all English translations Bible Gateway Recommends NKJV, Abide Bible, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version Our Price: $54.99 Buy Now The first verse uses Hebrew terms similar to those found in the first verses of Genesis. The expanse is full of the works of the Lord's skilful, creating hands; hands being attributed to the great creating Spirit to set forth his care and workmanlike action, and to meet the poor comprehension of mortals. I read, one time, that a good Bible devotional has two important elements. We have also been blessed to receive a third “book' from our Creator God - The Holy Scripture, which details God's amazing plan of Salvation - that fallen man can be saved by grace through faith in the death, burial and resurrection of God's only begotten Son.. Who laid aside His heavenly glory to be born into this sinful, rebellious race of man.. so that all who believe in His sacrificial death and glorious resurrection - would not perish but have everlasting life.. Heavenly Father, when I look into the heavens and see the splendour of Your handiwork and the glories of Your creative power, I am moved as was David to proclaim Your glory and to declare the wonderful works of Your mighty hand. In his eye everything was full of God. He commanded, and it stood fast." No doubt David also recognised the unmistakable signature of his faithful God, Who was the good Shepherd, Who provided all he needed, led him in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake, and promised a table of plentiful supply in the face of his bitter enemies. There are ⦠"[There is] no speech nor language, [where] their voice is not heard." Psalm 19 is the 19th psalm in the Book of Psalms, known in English by its first verse, in the King James Version, "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork." of The psalmist could not look up to heaven without exclaiming, The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. We become more Christlike, âconformed to t⦠They were created to shed their radiant glow and life-giving warmth onto the earth. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. We may rest assured that the true "Vestiges of Creation" will never contradict Genesis, nor will a correct "Cosmos" be found at variance with the narrative of Moses. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. Psalm 19:1 in the Parallel Bible; Psalm 19:1 in the Thematic Bible; Psalm 19:1 Cross References; Psalm 19:1 Treasury of Scripture Knowing; Psalm 19:1 Prayers; Psalm 19:1 Images; Psalm 19:1 Devotionals; Choose Chapter Universus mundus (as one pithily) nihil aliud est quam Deus explicatus: the whole world is nothing else but God expressed. What exactly does this mean? (Psalm 19:1-2 ESV) The ESV has a great English version of Psalm 19, but there is always a lot lost in translation, no matter how faithful you can be to the text. It is true that God is incapable to sense, yet he makes himself, as it were, visible in his works; as the divine poet (Du Bartas) sweetly: --. The ablest philosophers of modern times do, indeed, maintain that a natural law is nothing more than the uniform mode in which God acts; and that, after all, it is not the efficiency of the law, but God's own energy, that keeps all nature in motion; that he operates immediately and directly, not remotely and indirectly, in bringing about every event, and that every natural change is as really the work of God as if the eye of sense could see his hand turning round the wheels of nature. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. In the one, let all look, and admire and adore; and in the other, let those who have faith kneel, and pray, and praise. I confess this allegorical exposition is not altogether impertinent, neither is that literal exposition of Saint Chrysostom to be blamed, for it hath its weight. Still no approach is made to any limit. In wisdom hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy riches." -- So it seemeth, that that word which David did so much commend, he did commend it from an experimental efficacy; he had found it to be a righteous, and holy, and pure, and discovering word, laying open, not only visible and gross transgressions, but also, like the light of the sun, those otherwise unobserved and secret atoms of senses flying within the house; I mean in the secret chambers of the soul. What must be that power, which so formed worlds on worlds; worlds in comparison of which this earth which we inhabit sinks into utter nothingness! Psalms 19:1 Context. Surely when we thus lift up our thoughts to the heavens, the moon and the stars which he hath ordained, we must feel, if we can ever feel, how stupendous and incomprehensible is that Being who formed them all; that "the heavens" do indeed "declare the glory of God;" and the firmament sheweth his handywork. No doubt David had watched in wonder as the planets danced across the night sky, or as the fruitful season of harvest rolled round to the lush springtime of new birth. The great book of the creatures in folio, may be termed aptly the shepherd's kalendar, and the ploughman's alphabet, in which even the most ignorant may run (as the prophet speaks) and read. Psalm 19:1 connects this idea to Scripture. Psalm 19 â The Heavens, the Word, and the Glory of God. A Psalm of David. His own habitation has provided a base which has served him to measure the heavens. How extended these wonderful works of the Almighty may be no man can presume to say. When he heard the bellowings, and saw the smoke of the volcano, it was "God who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; he toucheth the hills, and they smoke." The 19th psalm is one of the most magnificent writings in the Bible and indeed in all literature. Psalms 33:6 Psalms 33:9 . He has employed them in the study of the wonderful works of God which the universe displays. The book of nature has three leaves, heaven, earth, and sea, of which heaven is the first and the most glorious, and by its aid we are able to see the beauties of the other two. He compares his own stature with the magnitude of the earth on which he dwells; the earth, with the system in which it is placed; the extent of the system, with the distance of the nearest fixed stars; and that distance again serves as a unit of measurement for other distances which observation points out. In every event they saw the agency of God; and, therefore, they took delight in its examination. He who looks up to the firmament and then writes himself down an atheist, brands himself at the same moment as an idiot or a liar. 1 (To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.) The sphere of creation appears to extend around us indefinitely on all sides; "to have its centre everywhere, its circumference nowhere." He who would guess at divine sublimity should gaze upward into the starry vault; he who would imagine infinity must peer into the boundless expanse; he who desires to see divine wisdom should consider the balancing of the orbs; he who would know divine fidelity must mark the regularity of the planetary motions; and he who would attain some conceptions of divine power, greatness, and majesty, must estimate the forces of attraction, the magnitude of the fixed stars, and the brightness of the whole celestial train. You have to respond to it. Man through his foolish pride and wilful rebellion has ignored the outer witness of creation and has allowed the inner witness of conscience to become seared and irresponsive to God's declaration of His own mighty works. So the heavens declare, that is, they make men declare the glory of God, by their admirable structure, motions, and influence. The stars, I trust, will teach as well as shine, and help to dispel both nature's gloom and my intellectual darkness. Psalm 111 exalts the works of God, while Psalm ⦠I think the imagery in verse 5 is saying that natural revelation is dominating and powerful. For they could not but receive pleasure from witnessing the manifestations of his wisdom and beneficence, whom they adored and loved. The Hebrew word for God in Psalm 19:1 is El which, like âGodâ in English, is a generic word for a heavenly being, not the special word for the God of the Hebrews (Yahweh or LORD, as in vv. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. But, although the ablest philosophy of modern times has reached this conclusion, the great mass of the community, and even of Christians, are still groping in the darkness of that mechanical system which ascribes the operation of this natural world to nature's laws instead of nature's God. Any book without its first page would be sadly imperfect, and especially the great Natural Bible, since its first pages, the sun, moon, and stars, supply light to the rest of the volume, and are thus the keys, without which the writing which follows would be dark and undiscerned. Psalm 19:1-14 Listen to Jesus Psalm 18 is a royal messianic psalm and Psalm 19 is a creation torah psalm. Yes, verily, their sound went into all the earth," etc., and the efficacy of whose gospel is like the heat of the sun, which pierceth into the very heart of the earth, so that into the secrets of the soul. Something like magic has struck my mind, on transient and unthinking survey of the aethreal vault, tinged throughout with the purest azure, and decorated with innumerable starry lamps. Man walking erect was evidently made to scan the skies, and he who begins to read creation by studying the stars begins the book at the right place. The body thereof (as mathematicians have confidently delivered) is one hundred and sixty-six times bigger than the whole earth, and yet it is every day carried by the finger of God so great a journey, so long a course, that if it were to be taken on the land, it should run every several hour of the day two hundred and twenty-five German miles. When he cast his eyes abroad upon the earth, his full heart cried out, "O Lord, how manifold are thy works! They have too many common foes, if they would but think of it, in ignorance and prejudice, in passion and vice, under all their forms, to admit of their lawfully wasting their strength in a useless warfare with each other. Second, the devotional must be short and filled with cute illustrations. 19 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Context Summary Psalm 19:1â6 focuses on creation as a means by which God reveals Himself to mankind. The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. I thought I heard, even from the silent spheres, a commanding call to spurn the abject earth, and pant after unseen delights. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. This song very distinctly divides itself into three parts, very well described by the translators in the ordinary heading of our version. Salem Media Group. â THERE IS NO SPEECH NOR LANGUAGE, WHERE THERE VOICE IS NOT HEARD. Commentary on Psalm 19:1-6 (Read Psalm 19:1-6) The heavens so declare the glory of God, and proclaim his wisdom, power, and goodness, that all ungodly men are left without excuse. But when I look to the cross of Calvary and see Christ:- dead, buried and resurrected to life.. so that by faith in Him I might be reconciled back to God; be forgiven of my sins and become Your child and heir - I am lost in wonder love and praise, AMEN. 7-9 and 14). Look at the tremendously vivid verbs David selects to describe how creation announces the glory of God: It tells of the amazing work of His creative hand. Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge. Our fall mini-series from the Psalter continues with Psalm 19. Creation is one of two “books' (creation and conscience), that God has given to every man born of woman and every woman begotten of man. To know His Word means we need to change. One day tells another, and one night certifies another. The expanse shows his handiwork. Man has been endued by his Creator with mental powers capable of cultivation. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. The wonder of the heavens tell forth the glory of God and the wider expanse of God's amazing creation continues to declare day by day of the amazing work of God's creative hands. Psalm 19is one of the best-known psalms. In the New Testament, this change is observable. The heavens declare, or are declaring, for the continuance of their testimony is intended by the participles employed; every moment God's existence, power, wisdom and goodness, are being sounded abroad by the heavenly heralds which shine upon us from above. Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. The more we learn about the universe, the more clearly we can see the work of God. Dr. Philip W. McLarty. The title tells us both the author and the audience of the psalm: To the Chief Musician. Let the one be the sanctuary where human learning may present its richest incense as an offering to God, and the other the holiest of all, separated from it by a veil now rent in twain, and in which, on a blood sprinkled mercyseat, we pour out the love of a reconciled heart, and hear the oracles of the living God.". Now the preaching of the heavens is wonderful in three respects. In a word, Psalm 19 is a song of praise, devotion and supplication: ⢠It recognizes the sovereignty of God over all creation. There is no speech nor language Where their voice is not heard. To some people they discharge no better a service than that of holding a flambeau to their feet, and softening the horrors of their night. When the thunderstorm passed before him, it was "God's voice in the heavens, and his lightnings that lighted the world." The heading, "To the Chief Musician, a Psalm of David," informs us that David wrote it, and that it was committed to the Master of the service of song in the sanctuary for the use of the assembled worshippers. The shocking truth is that man in his pride and foolishness has refused to read, recognise and honour the signature of His Creator-God.. in His astonishing book of Creation and the inner witness of his own God-given conscience. 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