Psalms 19:1-14

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 3:3 *).

Psalms 19:3 is a prosaic gloss to guard against any idea that the heavenly bodies speak in the literal sense.

Psalms 19:4. for line read voice. In them: i.e. in the heavens, but the text is probably corrupt.

XIX. B. Psalms 19:7. An Independent Poem in Praise of the Law. In Psalms 19:13 follow mg. The proud are bad Jews.