Bible Commentaries
Psalms 19

Verses 1-14

This is the “Psalm of the Two Books”-Nature and Scripture. If Psalms 8:1-9 were written at night, Psalms 19:1-14 was surely written by day. In Psalms 19:1 , God is called El, “strong;” in Psalms 19:7-9 ; Psalms 19:14 , the Hebrew Jehovah is translated “Lord,” as if His glory as Creator is the stepping-stone to loftier conceptions of the Redeemer.

Nature’s silence! No speech nor language! Psalms 19:3 . What a picture of the sacred stillness of dawn! Yet the witness-bearing is universal. Line, Psalms 19:4 , is “compass” or “territory,” but some translate it “chord.” Nature’s harp is strung to the glory of God. Jesus is our Sun, Malachi 4:2 .

Six synonyms for Scripture, and twelve qualities ascribed to it, Psalms 19:7-9 . How truly might our Lord have appropriated Psalms 19:10 ! Let us end with confession and prayer. Errors, Psalms 19:12 ; see Leviticus 4:2 , r.v., margin, Psalms 19:13 . Dominion, Psalms 19:13 ; Romans 6:14 . For the seventh time Jehovah, Psalms 19:14 , with two loving epithets! Can we all say my, claiming all of God?