Psalm 19:4
New International Version
Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.

New Living Translation
Yet their message has gone throughout the earth, and their words to all the world. God has made a home in the heavens for the sun.

English Standard Version
Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

Berean Standard Bible
their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.

King James Bible
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,

New King James Version
Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun,

New American Standard Bible
Their line has gone out into all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has placed a tent for the sun,

NASB 1995
Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their utterances to the end of the world. In them He has placed a tent for the sun,

NASB 1977
Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their utterances to the end of the world. In them He has placed a tent for the sun,

Legacy Standard Bible
Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their utterances to the end of the world. In them He has placed a tent for the sun,

Amplified Bible
Yet their voice [in quiet evidence] has gone out through all the earth, Their words to the end of the world. In them and in the heavens He has made a tent for the sun,

Christian Standard Bible
Their message has gone out to the whole earth, and their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Their message has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.

American Standard Version
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,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Their Gospel went forth into all the Earth, and their words into the end of the world; in them he pitched his tabernacle for the sun.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Their voice is gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

Contemporary English Version
Yet their message reaches all the earth, and it travels around the world. In the heavens a tent is set up for the sun.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world.

English Revised Version
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,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[Yet,] their sound has gone out into the entire world, their message to the ends of the earth. He has set up a tent in the heavens for the sun,

Good News Translation
yet their message goes out to all the world and is heard to the ends of the earth. God made a home in the sky for the sun;

International Standard Version
yet their message goes out into all the world, and their words to the ends of the earth. He has set up a tent for the sun in the heavens,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath He set a tent for the sun,

Literal Standard Version
Their line has gone forth into all the earth, | And their sayings to the end of the world, | In them He placed a tent for the sun,

Majority Standard Bible
their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.

New American Bible
A report goes forth through all the earth, their messages, to the ends of the world. He has pitched in them a tent for the sun;

NET Bible
Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth; its words carry to the distant horizon. In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun.

New Revised Standard Version
yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In the heavens he has set a tent for the sun,

New Heart English Bible
Their voice has gone out to all the earth, their words to the farthest part of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

Webster's Bible Translation
Their line hath 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,

World English Bible
Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

Young's Literal Translation
Into all the earth hath their line gone forth, And to the end of the world their sayings, For the sun He placed a tent in them,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God
3Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard, 4their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun. 5Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,…

Cross References
Romans 10:18
But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: "Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

Judges 5:31
So may all your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest." And the land had rest for forty years.

Psalm 19:3
Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard,

Psalm 19:5
Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,

Psalm 104:2
He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

Isaiah 40:22
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.


Treasury of Scripture

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,

Their

Psalm 98:3
He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 49:6
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

Romans 10:18
But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

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Genesis 1:14-18
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: …

Malachi 4:2
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

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(4) Their line.--Heb., kav, a cord, used of a plummet line (Zechariah 1:16); a measuring cord (Jeremiah 31:39, where also same verb, gone forth). In Isaiah 28:10, the word is used ethically for a definition or law. But neither of these seems very appropriate here. The verse wants sound or voice, and words of this intention actually appear in the LXX., Vulg., Symmachus, Jerome, and the Syriac.

The use which St. Paul makes of these words (Romans 10:18) is as natural as striking. The march of truth has always been compared to the spread of light. But the allegorical interpretation based on the quotation, making the heavens a figure of the Church and the sun of the Gospel, loses the force and beauty of the Apostle's application.

In them hath . . .--This clause is not only rightly joined to Psalm 19:4, but concludes a stanza: the relative in the next verse of the Authorised Version mars the true construction. . . .

Verse 4. - Their line is gone out through all the earth. It is much disputed what "their line" means. The word used, qav (קַו), means, ordinarily, a "measuring-line" (Ezekiel 47:3: Zechariah 1:16, etc.), whence it comes to have the further sense of a terminus or boundary; that which the measuring-line marks out. It is also thought to have signified an architect's rule; and, hence, anything regulative, as a decree, precept, or law (see Isaiah 28:10). The LXX. translated it in this place by φθόγγος, "a musical sound;" and Dr. Kay supposes "the regulative chord," or "key-note." to be intended. Perhaps "decree" would be in this place the best rendering, since it would suit the "words" (minim) of the second clause. The "decree" of the heavens is one proclaiming the glory of God, and the duty of all men to worship him. And their words to the end of the world. Though they have neither speech nor language, nor any articulate words, yet they have "words" in a certain sense. Millim is said to be used of thoughts just shaping themselves into language, but not yet uttered (Kay). In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun. God has made the heavens the sun's dwelling-place, the place where he passes the day. There is, perhaps, a tacit allusion to the Shechinah, which dwelt in the tabernacle of the congregation:

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
their voice
קַוָּ֗ם (qaw·wām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6957: A cord, for, measuring, a rule, a rim, a musical string, accord

has gone out
יָ֘צָ֤א (yā·ṣā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

into all
בְּכָל־ (bə·ḵāl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the earth,
הָאָ֨רֶץ ׀ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

their words
מִלֵּיהֶ֑ם (mil·lê·hem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4405: A word, a discourse, a topic

to the ends
וּבִקְצֵ֣ה (ū·ḇiq·ṣêh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7097: End, extremity

of the world.
תֵ֭בֵל (ṯê·ḇêl)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8398: The earth, the globe, its inhabitants, a particular land

In the heavens He has pitched
שָֽׂם־ (śām-)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

a tent
אֹ֥הֶל (’ō·hel)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 168: A tent

for the sun
לַ֝שֶּׁ֗מֶשׁ (laš·še·meš)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 8121: The sun, the east, a ray, a notched battlement


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