<> The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
(Title.) A psalm. It is uncertain when this highly finished and beautiful ode was composed; though some think it was written by David in the wilderness when persecuted by Saul.
The heavens
Psalm 8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon …
Psalm 33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of …
Psalm 115:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth has he …
Psalm 148:3,4 Praise you him, sun and moon: praise him, all you stars of light…
Isaiah 40:22-26 It is he that sits on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants …
Jeremiah 10:11,12 Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens …
Romans 1:19,20 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God …
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
Psalm 150:1,2 Praise you the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the …
Genesis 1:6-8,14,15 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the middle of the waters, …
Daniel 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament…
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Day unto
Psalm 24:7-10 Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be you lift up, you everlasting …
Psalm 78:3-6 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us…
Psalm 134:1-3 Behold, bless you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, which by …
Psalm 148:12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
Exodus 15:20,21 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand…
Isaiah 38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: the …
nigh unto
Psalm 74:16 The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the …
Psalm 136:8,9 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endures for ever…
Genesis 1:17,18 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light on the earth…
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, …
There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
There. or, `They have no speech, nor words, nor is their voice heard; yet into all the earth hath gone out their sound, and to the extremity of the world their words.' The Hebrew, kav, rendered, line, like the Greek by which the LXX (who are followed by Paul), render it, no doubt signifies the sound as well as the cord which emits it. The Vulgate, Jerome, and Symmachus, render it to the same purpose.
Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, …
where. or, without these their voice is heard. [heb.] without their voice heard.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
bridegroom
Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my …
Isaiah 62:5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: …
John 3:29 He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, …
rejoiceth
Ecclesiastes 1:5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to his place …
1 Corinthians 9:24-26 Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives …
Philippians 3:13,14 Brothers, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing …
Hebrews 12:1,2 Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, …
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
law or doctrine
Psalm 78:1-7 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth…
Psalm 119:72,96-100,105,127,128 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver…
Psalm 147:19,20 He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel…
Deuteronomy 6:6-9 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart…
Deuteronomy 17:18-20 And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom…
Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you …
Job 23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have …
Romans 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God.
Romans 15:4 For whatever things were written aforetime were written for our learning…
perfect
Psalm 18:30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he …
Psalm 11:7 For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance does …
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: …
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be you transformed by the …
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down …
converting. or, restoring
Psalm 23:3 He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for …
Psalm 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto …
James 1:21-25 Why lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and …
testimony
Psalm 93:5 Your testimonies are very sure: holiness becomes your house, O LORD, for ever.
Psalm 119:14,24,111,152 I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches…
Isaiah 8:16,20 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples…
John 3:32,33 And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives …
John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: …
Acts 10:43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whoever …
2 Timothy 1:8 Be not you therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of …
1 John 5:9-12 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: …
Revelation 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said to me, See you …
sure
Psalm 111:7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.
2 Samuel 23:5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he has made with me an …
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, …
Hebrews 6:18,19 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God …
making
Psalm 119:130 The entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.
Proverbs 1:4,22,23 To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion…
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching …
2 Timothy 3:15-17 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures…
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
statutes
Psalm 105:45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise you the LORD.
Psalm 119:12,16,80,171 Blessed are you, O LORD: teach me your statutes…
Genesis 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, …
Exodus 18:16 When they have a matter, they come to me; and I judge between one …
Deuteronomy 4:5,6 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD …
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my …
right
Psalm 119:128 Therefore I esteem all your precepts concerning all things to be …
Nehemiah 9:13 You came down also on mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, …
rejoicing
Psalm 40:8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yes, your law is within my heart.
Psalm 119:14,24,54,92,121,143 I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches…
Deuteronomy 12:11,12 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose …
Deuteronomy 16:11,14 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, …
Nehemiah 8:12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send …
Isaiah 64:5 You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember …
Jeremiah 15:16 Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was to me …
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
is pure
Psalm 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace …
Psalm 119:40 Behold, I have longed after your precepts: quicken me in your righteousness.
Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield to them that put their trust in him.
Romans 7:12-14 Why the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good…
enlightening
Psalm 13:3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep …
Psalm 119:98-100,105,130 You through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: …
Proverbs 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs …
Romans 2:17-20 Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God…
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified …
Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not …
Galatians 2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live to God.
Galatians 3:10-13,21 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for …
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
The fear
Psalm 34:11-14 Come, you children, listen to me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD…
Psalm 36:1 The transgression of the wicked said within my heart, that there …
Psalm 115:13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.
Genesis 22:12 And he said, Lay not your hand on the lad, neither do you any thing …
Genesis 42:18 And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
1 Samuel 12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for …
1 Kings 18:3,4,12 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now …
Nehemiah 5:15 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable …
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the …
Acts 10:22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that …
Romans 3:10-18 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one…
enduring
Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding …
Psalm 112:1-6 Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that …
judgments
Psalm 10:5 His ways are always grievous; your judgments are far above out of …
Psalm 36:6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are …
Psalm 72:1,2 Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son…
Psalm 119:7,39,62,75,106,137,138,142,1 I will praise you with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned …
Psalm 147:19 He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel.
Exodus 21:1 Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them.
Deuteronomy 4:8 And what nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments …
Isaiah 26:8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; …
Romans 2:2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against …
Romans 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which …
Revelation 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song …
Revelation 16:7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, …
Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great …
true [Heb.] truth
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
than gold
Psalm 119:72,127 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver…
Job 28:15-17 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for …
Proverbs 3:13-15 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding…
Proverbs 8:10,11,19 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold…
Proverbs 16:16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding …
sweeter
Psalm 63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth …
Psalm 119:103 How sweet are your words to my taste! yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Job 23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have …
Proverbs 24:13 My son, eat you honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which …
honeycomb [heb.] the dropping of honey-combs
1 Samuel 14:26-29 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; …
Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Moreover
Psalm 119:11 Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
2 Chronicles 19:10 And what cause soever shall come to you of your brothers that dwell …
Proverbs 6:22,23 When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; …
Ezekiel 3:17-21 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore …
Ezekiel 33:3-9 If when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, …
Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, …
Acts 20:31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I …
1 Corinthians 4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
1 Thessalonians 5:14 Now we exhort you, brothers, warn them that are unruly, comfort the …
Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved …
keeping
Proverbs 3:16-18 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor…
Proverbs 11:18 The wicked works a deceitful work: but to him that sows righteousness …
Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the …
Isaiah 3:10,11 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they …
Matthew 6:4,6,18 That your alms may be in secret: and your Father which sees in secret …
Hebrews 11:6,26 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes …
James 1:25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues …
2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have worked, …
Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are …
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
can
Psalm 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have …
Job 6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein …
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are …
1 Corinthians 4:4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but …
Hebrews 9:7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not …
cleanse
Psalm 51:5-10 Behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me…
Psalm 65:3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, you shall …
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship …
secret
Psalm 90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light …
Psalm 139:2,23,24 You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off…
Leviticus 4:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying…
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: …
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Keep
Genesis 20:6 And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in …
1 Samuel 25:32-34,39 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which …
presumptuous
Exodus 21:14 But if a man come presumptuously on his neighbor, to slay him with …
Numbers 15:30,31 But the soul that does ought presumptuously, whether he be born in …
Deuteronomy 17:12,13 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not listen to the …
2 Peter 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, …
let
Psalm 119:133 Order my steps in your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Romans 6:12-14,16-22 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should …
upright
Psalm 7:10 My defense is of God, which saves the upright in heart.
Psalm 11:7 For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance does …
Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and …
Acts 24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void …
I shall
Psalm 18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
1 Chronicles 10:13,14 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the …
great [heb.] much
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Let
Psalm 5:1,2 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation…
Psalm 51:15 O Lord, open you my lips; and my mouth shall show forth your praise.
Psalm 66:18-20 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me…
Psalm 119:108 Accept, I beseech you, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, …
Genesis 4:4,5 And Abel, he also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of the …
Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the …
Romans 15:16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering …
Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, …
Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, …
1 Peter 2:5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy …
strength [heb.] rock
Psalm 18:1,2 I will love you, O LORD, my strength…
redeemer
Job 19:25 For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the …
Isaiah 43:14 Thus said the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your …
Isaiah 44:6 Thus said the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD …
Isaiah 47:4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 54:5 For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and …
1 Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, …
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, …
1 Peter 1:18,19 For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible …
Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book, …
