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Psalms 19:1

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.”

— WEB

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”

— KJV

“The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament showeth his handiwork.”

— ASV

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Commentary

From the things that are seen every day by all the world the psalmist, in these verses, leads us to the consideration of the invisible things of God, whose being appears incontestably evident and whose glory shines transcendently bright in the visible heavens, the structure and beauty of them, and the order and influence of the heavenly bodies. This instance of the divine power serves not only to show the folly of atheists, who see there is a heaven and yet say, "There is no God," who see the effect and yet say, "There is no cause," but to show the folly of idolaters also, and the vanity of their imagination, who, though the heavens declare the glory of God, yet gave that glory to the lights of heaven which those very lights directed them to give to God only, the Father of lights. Now observe here, 1. What that is which the creatures notify to us. They are in many ways useful and serviceable to us, but in nothing so much as in this, that they declare the glory of God, by showing his handy-works, Psa 19:1.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (public domain)

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