George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 19:5
Counsels. We must suppose that those of a pious prince are right. (Calmet) --- This condition is always understood. (Haydock)
Counsels. We must suppose that those of a pious prince are right. (Calmet) --- This condition is always understood. (Haydock)
Verse Psalms 19:5. _WHICH_ IS _AS A BRIDEGROOM, C._] This is a reference to the _rising of the sun_, as the following verse is to the _setting_. He makes his appearance above the horizon with splendo...
WHICH IS AS A BRIDEGROOM COMING OUT OF HIS CHAMBER - That is, when he rises in the morning. He rises from the darkness of the night, and comes forth as the bridegroom comes out of the chamber where he...
Psalms 19 Christ in Creation and in Revelation __ 1 In creation (Psalms 19:1) 2. In revelation (Psalms 19:7) Psalms 19:1
XIX. A. PSALMS 19:1. THE REVELATION OF GOD IN NATURE. A fragment of a longer poem. Day and night are pictured as living beings who hand on the tradition of God's creative act from age to age (see Job...
WHICH IS. And he. CHAMBER. bridal canopy. Hebrew. _chuppah._ First occurrence; elsewhere, only in Isaiah 4:5 ("defence"). Joel 2:16 ("closet"). AND. Omit this "And". STRONGMAN. Hebrew. _gibbor._ Ap...
The universal revelation of God in Nature....
Thence he comes forth morning by morning like the bridegroom in all the splendour of his bridal attire, in all the freshness of youthful vigour and buoyant happiness (Isaiah 61:10; Isaiah 62:5): like...
REJOICETH AS A STRONG MAN TO RUN A RACE— This is another comparison taken from the vehemence and force with which a warrior runs toward his enemy; and is not, as some expositors fancy, an allusion to...
PSALMS 19 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Greater than the Glory of God in the Heavens is the Grace of Jehovah in the Law. ANALYSIS A Composite Psalm: in which, by the mere force of Juxtaposition, the Grace of J...
_WHICH IS AS A BRIDEGROOM COMING OUT OF HIS CHAMBER, AND REJOICETH AS A STRONG MAN TO RUN A RACE._ Which is as a bridegroom ... and rejoiceth as a strong man - Hebrew, a hero. The point of comparison...
This Ps. falls into two well-marked divisions. Psalms 19:1 describe the glory of God (_El_) as seen in the heavenly bodies, especially the sun, and are thus parallel to Psalms 8; Psalms 19:7 deal with...
AS A BRIDEGROOM] The comparison suggests the vigour and beauty of youth as well as the splendour of wedding attire. A RACE] RV 'his course' from E. to W., the two 'ends' of heaven mentioned in Psalms...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
WHICH IS. — Better, _and he is._ The suddenness of the Oriental sunrise is finely caught in the image of the uplifted tent-curtain and appearance of the radiant hero (“strong man;” Heb., _gibbor._ Com...
_[Psalms 19:6]_ וְ ה֗וּא כְּ֭ חָתָן יֹצֵ֣א...
Psalms 19:1 Is this originally one psalm or bits of two, pieced together to suggest a comparison between the two sources of knowledge of God, which the authors did not dream of? The affirmative is str...
THE WORKS AND THE WORD OF GOD Psalms 19:1 This is the “Psalm of the Two Books”-Nature and Scripture. If Psalms 8:1 were written at night, Psalms 19:1 was surely written by day. In...
The burden of this psalm is the twofold revelation of Jehovah. He is revealed in Nature and in law. Yet in Nature Jehovah is revealed as God and not by those especial qualities suggested by the great...
Which [is] as a bridegroom coming out of his (e) chamber, [and] rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. (e) Or vail. The custom was that the bride and bridegroom would stand under a vail together, a...
These verses contain a most delightful account of the heavens and the heavenly bodies, in their light and beneficial influence; and particularly with reference to the glorious luminary of the day, whi...
Psalms 19 _ Proper Psalm for Christmas Day_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 19-21 = _ Day 4_ (_Morning_)....
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 18 AND 19. Psalms 18 presents to us the connection of Christ, and particularly of His (not atoning suffering that is found in Psalms 22, but His) entering into t...
WHICH IS AS A BRIDEGROOM COMING OUT OF HIS CHAMBER,.... His nuptial chamber, on which Elias writes y, "we call the garment (or canopy) spread over the head of the bridegroom and bride, supported by f...
Which [is] as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, [and] rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. Ver. 5. _Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber_] _sc._ After long expectation, with a...
Psa. 19:4-6. "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: his going forth is from the end of the heav...
_Their line_ Their admirable structure, made with great exactness, and, as it were, by rule or line, as the word קו, _kav_, here used, generally signifies. Or, _their lines_, the singular number being...
which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, happy in the possession of the bride whose love gives him strength to cope with the problems of life, AND REJOICETH AS A STRONG MAN, like a valiant...
A PROPHECY OF THE GOSPEL. Luther says of this psalm that it is a prophecy of the Gospel as it was intended to go forth into all the world, as wide as the heavens extend, and to be proclaimed and taug...
1-6 The heavens so declare the glory of God, and proclaim his wisdom, power, and goodness, that all ungodly men are left without excuse. They speak themselves to be works of God's hands; for they mus...
AS A BRIDEGROOM; gloriously adorned with light as with a beautiful garment, and smiling upon the lower world with a pleasant countenance. COMING OUT OF HIS CHAMBER; in which he is poetically supposed...
Psalms 19:5 bridegroom H2860 out H3318 (H8802) chamber H2646 rejoices H7797 (H8799) man H1368 run H7323 ...
GOD SPEAKS THROUGH NATURE (PSALMS 19:1). ‘The heavens declare the glory of God,' And the firmament reveals his handiwork. Day to day utters speech, And night to night shows knowledge.' The psalmis...
Psalms 19:5 This rising sun is here a figure, token, or shadow of our Lord Jesus Christ. I. Every one may understand that as the sun is beyond comparison the brightest object in these outward and vis...
Psalms 19:1 Part First. The praise of the Divine glory in the natural world of creation is first general (vers. 1-4) and then particular (vers. 4-6). I. The whole visible expanse of sky is the them...
This Psalm teaches us the excellence of the two revelations which God has made to man. The first is the revelation which he has made in nature, and the second is that which he has made in his inspired...
This Psalm has the same subject as Psalms 119:1. Both of them are full of praise of God's Word. God has written two books for us to read,-the volume of the Creation and the volume of the Sacred Script...
CONTENTS: God's revelation of Himself in the book of nature, book of the law and the book of human life. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God makes Himself known through three great books, all of...
Psalms 19:4. _Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to_ _the end of the world._ The LXX, φθογγος, _phthoggos._ Vulgate, _sonus,_ their _sound;_ the music of their voice. The el...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 19:1. In singing this psalm, God’s people celebrate his law as his supreme revelation of himself. The psalm recounts the way the creation speaks of its Maker (vv....
INTRODUCTION “This psalm instructs its readers in the glory and goodness of God; first, by directing their contemplation to the structure of the heavens, to the course of the sun, and to the kindly in...
EXPOSITION THE nineteenth psalm is one of meditative praise. The psalmist, looking abroad over the whole world, finds two main subjects for his eulogy—first, the glorious fabric of the material creati...
Chapter 19 is one of the beautiful favorite psalms where David does speak about how God does reveal Himself to man in nature. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handi...
1 Corinthians 9:24; Ecclesiastes 1:5; Hebrews 12:1; Hebrews 12:2;...
Bridegroom — Gloriously adorned with light as with a beautiful garment, and smiling upon the world with a pleasant countenance. Chamber — In which he is poetically supposed to have rested all night, a...