Psalm 19:1
New International Version
For the director of music. A psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

New Living Translation
The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship.

English Standard Version
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Berean Standard Bible
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

King James Bible
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

New King James Version
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork.

New American Standard Bible
For the music director. A Psalm of David. The heavens tell of the glory of God; And their expanse declares the work of His hands.

NASB 1995
For the choir director. A Psalm of David. The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.

NASB 1977
The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.

Legacy Standard Bible
For the choir director. A Psalm of David. The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And the expanse is declaring the work of His hands.

Amplified Bible
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And the expanse [of heaven] is declaring the work of His hands.

Christian Standard Bible
For the choir director. A psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the expanse proclaims the work of his hands.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky proclaims the work of His hands.

American Standard Version
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament showeth his handiwork.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Heaven makes heard the glory of God and the firmament shows the work of his hands.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the end, a Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands.

Contemporary English Version
The heavens keep telling the wonders of God, and the skies declare what he has done.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unto the end. A psalm for David. The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the work of his hands.

English Revised Version
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[For the choir director; a psalm by David.] The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky displays what his hands have made.

Good News Translation
How clearly the sky reveals God's glory! How plainly it shows what he has done!

International Standard Version
The heavens are declaring the glory of God, and their expanse shows the work of his hands.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For the Leader. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, And the firmament showeth His handiwork;

Literal Standard Version
TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. The heavens [are] recounting the glory of God, | And the expanse [is] declaring the work of His hands.

Majority Standard Bible
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

New American Bible
For the leader. A psalm of David. [2] The heavens declare the glory of God; the firmament proclaims the works of his hands.

NET Bible
For the music director; a psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the sky displays his handiwork.

New Revised Standard Version
The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.

New Heart English Bible
[For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.] The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

Webster's Bible Translation
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth the work of his hands.

World English Bible
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

Young's Literal Translation
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. The heavens are recounting the honour of God, And the work of His hands The expanse is declaring.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God
1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. 2Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.…

Cross References
Romans 1:19
For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

Genesis 1:6
And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters."

Genesis 1:7
So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.

Genesis 1:14
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.

Psalm 8:1
O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

Psalm 50:6
And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah


Treasury of Scripture

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork.

(Title.

The heavens

Psalm 8:3
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

Psalm 33:6
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 115:16
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

the firmament.

Psalm 150:1,2
Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power…

Genesis 1:6-8,14,15
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters…

Daniel 12:3
And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

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Psalm 19
1. The creatures show God's glory
7. The excellence of the divine law
12. David prays for grace














(1) The heavens declare.--Better, the heavens are telling. The poet is even now gazing at the sky, not philosophising on a familiar natural phenomenon, nor is he merely enjoying beauty. Not only is his aesthetic faculty satisfied, but his spirit, his religious nature is moved. He has an immediate apprehension, an intuition of God. He is looking on the freshness of the morning, and all he sees is telling of God, bringing God before him. This constitutes the essence of the greater part of Hebrew poetry. This is the inspiration of the bard of Israel--a religious inspiration. The lower, the aesthetic perception of beauty, is ready at every moment to pass into the higher, the religious emotion. All truly great poetry partakes of this elevation--Hebrew poetry in its highest degree. Some lines from Coleridge's "Hymn before Sunrise in the Yale of Chamouni not only supplies a modern example, but explains the moral, or rather spiritual process, involved--

"O dread and silent mount! I gazed upon thee

Till thou, still present to the bodily sense,

Did'st vanish from my thought; entranced in prayer,

I worshipped the Invisible alone."

(See an article on "God in Nature and in History," in The Expositor for March, 1881.)

Verse 1. - The heavens declare the glory of God; literally, the heavens are recounting the glory of God - of El, "the Mighty One" - the God of nature (see Romans 1:20). David is perhaps carrying out his declared intention (Psalm 18:49) of praising God among the heathen," and therefore takes their standpoint - the ground of nature. And the firmament showeth his handywork. (On "the firmament," see Genesis 1:6, 20.) It is the entire atmosphere enveloping the earth, in which the clouds hang and the birds move. Like the starry heavens above, this, too, "showeth," or rather, "proclaimeth," God's handiwork.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For the choirmaster.
לַמְנַצֵּ֗חַ (lam·naṣ·ṣê·aḥ)
Preposition-l, Article | Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5329: To glitter from afar, to be eminent, to be permanent

A Psalm
מִזְמ֥וֹר (miz·mō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4210: Instrumental music, a poem set to notes

of David.
לְדָוִֽד׃ (lə·ḏā·wiḏ)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

The heavens
הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם (haš·šā·ma·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky

declare
מְֽסַפְּרִ֥ים (mə·sap·pə·rîm)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 5608: To count, recount, relate

the glory
כְּבֽוֹד־ (kə·ḇō·wḏ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3519: Weight, splendor, copiousness

of God;
אֵ֑ל (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

the skies
הָרָקִֽיעַ׃ (hā·rā·qî·a‘)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7549: An expanse, the firmament, visible arch of the sky

proclaim
מַגִּ֥יד (mag·gîḏ)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5046: To be conspicuous

the work
וּֽמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה (ū·ma·‘ă·śêh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

of His hands.
יָ֝דָ֗יו (yā·ḏāw)
Noun - fdc | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand


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