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Psa 19:1-14
This is the “Psalm of the Two Books”-Nature and Scripture. If Psa 8:1-9 were written at night, Psa 19:1-14 was surely written by day. In Psa 19:1, God is called El, “strong;” in Psa 19:7-9; Psa 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! Psa 19:3. What a picture of the sacred stillness of dawn! Yet the witness-bearing is universal. Line, Psa 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, Mal 4:2.
Six synonyms for Scripture, and twelve qualities ascribed to it, Psa 19:7-9. How truly might our Lord have appropriated Psa 19:10! Let us end with confession and prayer. Errors, Psa 19:12; see Lev 4:2, r.v., margin, Psa 19:13. Dominion, Psa 19:13; Rom 6:14. For the seventh time Jehovah, Psa 19:14, with two loving epithets! Can we all say my, claiming all of God?