Mountain Valley With River and Wildflowersby MuzFamily
19:2Psalms 19:2
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Day after day and night after night keep speaking without pause, declaring through the created heavens and earth the glory and skilled handiwork of the living Creator and Ruler. Their voice goes out through all the earth to its ends, understood beyond human speech and language in sun and moon, changing seasons, hills and mountains, wind and rain, and every temporal blessing of providence. What they make known is His power and wisdom, His grandeur and character, His tender fatherly love, goodness and mercy, and His desire to make His children happy. The book of nature and the written word come from the same mind and agree, so nature reflects divine truth as from a mirror and teaches obedience to the wise and beneficent laws through which He works. This witness calls all to behold and study, to learn and teach its lessons to children, and to answer with continual thanksgiving, reverence and praise, for to refuse to listen and persist in impenitence is to be left to want and desolation when protecting care is withdrawn.
Day And Night Speak
Day unto day keeps uttering speech and night unto night keeps showing knowledge, with each succeeding day and night continually speaking through creation and making God known. The unceasing succession of day and night bears witness without pause, day after day and night after night imparting knowledge of God through the natural world. The regular order itself testifies, appointed as a created agency to declare Him throughout the earth.
This speech is the heavens declaring glory and the firmament showing handiwork, joined by day and night in the same continual declaration. Day speaking to day and night showing knowledge to night is that heavenly proclamation of glory and handiwork. Its voice goes out through all the earth to the end of the world, heard where there is no speech nor language and understood beyond the limits of spoken tongues. Successive days and successive nights communicate everywhere on earth without spoken words, so the witness is heard in every speech and language and to the ends of the world.
The sun and moon with their differing lights declare this glory, and the ever-changing scenes of the recurring seasons give fresh proof day after day and night after night. The hills and the mountains, molded and balanced so they are not moved except at command, belong to this same witness. The wind, the sun, the rain, the snow, and the ice declare it as ministers appointed to do the will.
Every temporal blessing utters speech and shows knowledge of the Giver. Rain and sunshine, beauty, food, birdsong, flowers, fruits, harvests, cattle upon the hills, flocks and herds, raiment and dwellings, gold and silver, friends and health, and ten thousand unnoticed mercies silently falling in the pathway are the voice. The daily blessings of providence are this continuing witness, joined to spiritual blessings, seasons of refreshing, heavenly manna, food and gladness, and morning and evening rejoicing.
The beauties of nature have a tongue that speaks without ceasing to the senses and invites attention and meditation. From thunder and the ocean to birdsong, hills, trees, flowers, and the heavens, its many voices bear witness. Sunbeam, green fields, lofty trees, buds and flowers, passing cloud, falling rain, babbling brook, sun, moon, and stars all speak to the open heart and listening ear and bid men become acquainted with the Maker.
What Nature Reveals
Day unto day and night unto night make known through creation that God is the living Creator and Supreme Ruler, and reveal His glory, power, wisdom, skill, grandeur, character, love, goodness, mercy, and eternal kingdom. The recurring order continually communicates this knowledge, with the sun and moon in their differing lights declaring glory and teaching of Him and His everlasting kingdom. The works display skill, power, and grandeur, and their lessons are to be learned and taught, while the Sabbath directs observers to recognize in them wisdom, power, and love. Even without spoken language this witness goes out continually, displaying goodness and mercy yet, because creation is blighted by sin, unable to reveal moral character perfectly or give complete knowledge.
Its testimony tells of tender fatherly care and desire to make His children happy. That care is seen in wonderful adaptation to human needs and happiness, and in provision for even the humblest creatures. Hill and vale, river and sea are the Father's handiwork expressing love for humanity, not to be fully appreciated without seeing that expression. The earth was created and filled with life and gladness by One infinite in power and great in goodness, mercy, and love, whose glory is declared by the many voices of earth and sea and sky everywhere without spoken words.
In Eden nature was full of the knowledge of God and teeming with divine instruction, vocal with wisdom to attentive ears as humanity communed with God in His works and the message spoke to the eye and entered the heart. After transgression the brightness from the face of God departed from the face of nature, and nature was marred and defiled by sin, with traces of the work of the prince of the power of the air seen upon it. What is seen today gives only a faint conception of Eden's beauty and glory, yet much that is beautiful remains with traces of original loveliness, from thunder and ocean to birdsong, hills, trees, flowers, and heavens bearing witness to power, care, and love of beauty. Even in its blighted state all things reveal the handiwork of the great Master Artist and still speak of God, for while in briars, thistles, thorns, and tares the law of condemnation may be read, the beauty of natural things and their adaptation to human needs show that love and mercy are still manifested to the world.
Nature responds at once when called to testify to what has been made, never denies God and never refuses obedience to any intimation of His will. All created works act in sublime harmony with the laws, amid towering rocks and everlasting hills showing greatness, majesty, and power, while human beings alone disobey and array themselves in opposition to the law and principles of the government, with fallen beings alone refusing full obedience in words and works at variance with God. Nature is not God and must not be worshiped, for the heavens and natural wonders are created agencies appointed to bear witness, having no power apart from what He continually supplies as He creates and upholds all things. Because it is blighted by sin it cannot perfectly reveal His moral character or give a complete knowledge of Him, though it points to God and to Jesus Christ as Creator.
Nature Scripture And Law
The book of nature and the written word bear the impress of the same master mind and come from the same source. By different methods and in different languages they witness to the same great truths, always agreeing and shedding light upon each other. Science keeps discovering new wonders but brings from its research nothing that, rightly understood, conflicts with divine revelation. Together the two books make God better known by teaching His character and the wise, beneficent laws through which He works, leading to worship and trust in His word.
Divine truth revealed in Scripture is reflected as from a mirror in the face of nature. Nature rightly studied and interpreted is an extended page of the Word, vocal with wisdom and teeming with instruction that leads heavenward. The whole natural world is designed to be an interpreter of the things of God and a great lesson book to guide lost sheep back to the fold. Christ made nature speak, speaking of things He Himself had made and using shrub and flower and seedtime and harvest to lay open divine, momentous truths bound up with natural things.
Each succeeding day and night keeps speaking and showing knowledge by joining the heavens and the firmament in declaring glory and handiwork. Reading this psalm often teaches how the Lord binds up His law with His created works. Nature read as a lesson-book teaches humanity's unity with nature and God, the dominion of law, the results of breaking that law, and lessons of obedience to the will of the Creator. Teachers are called to behold the heavens and study the works in nature, to strive to understand His wonderful works, to commit the lessons nature teaches to memory, and to open the eyes of the senses to take in beautiful things. The Sabbath directs people to observe nature and to contemplate and recognize in it the Creator's wisdom, power, and love.
As the works of God are studied, the Holy Spirit flashes conviction into the mind, not the conviction of logical reasoning. Unless the mind is too dark to know God and the eye too dim to see Him and the ear too dull to hear His voice, a deeper meaning is grasped. Then the sublime spiritual truths of the written word are impressed on the heart. The psalm cannot be spoken of intelligently unless talents are consecrated to God. Understanding Christ's sacrifice for humanity awakens responsibility to serve Him.
Responding To The Witness
Day unto day and night unto night keep speaking and showing knowledge of God through the heavens declaring glory and the firmament showing handiwork, with a voice heard through all the earth to the end of the world where there is no speech nor language. The verse calls teachers to behold the heavens and study the works in nature and to strive to understand those wonderful works. Teachers and learners are to commit the lessons nature teaches to memory, to open the eyes of the senses and take in beautiful things, to read this psalm often to learn how the law is bound up with created works, and to contemplate what has been made by hand. Its lessons display skill and power and grandeur and point the mind to the Creator and reveal love and laws governing nature, and they are to be learned and taught to children.
God uses this continual witness to turn the mind from the artificial to the natural. Lifting the eyes to the hills gives better understanding, for the mountains molded and balanced so they are not moved except at command, and the wind and sun and rain and snow and ice as ministers to do the will, are the work of God. The same witness of day and night declaring the living Creator and Supreme Ruler is what people are to contemplate on the Sabbath, which directs them to observe nature and recognize wisdom and power and love in it.
The changing days and nights with the sights and sounds of creation speak to human senses and invite people to know their Creator. This witness remains ongoing and available to those willing to listen and understand. The beauties of nature have a tongue that speaks without ceasing, from sunbeam and green fields and lofty trees to buds and flowers and passing cloud and falling rain and babbling brook and sun and moon and stars, inviting attention and meditation and bidding men become acquainted with the Maker of them all. The open heart is impressed with love and glory seen in the works of the hand, and the listening ear hears and understands the communications of God through the works of nature.
The verse is words of praise and adoration and an exhortation to be joyful in the Lord. It requires never again to fail to offer thanksgiving and praise for goodness, to praise in assemblies with voice and melody, forgetting difficulties and troubles and praising for freedom from sin and for opportunity to live for the glory of the name. Nature as an open book teaches power and love and wisdom, through which people grow in reverence and gratitude and keep God in remembrance. This continual speech gives elevated food for thought that leads to love and adoration of the Creator.
The ever-changing scenes of the recurring seasons give fresh proof day after day and night after night of glory and power and love, bringing lessons of wisdom and healing for all. Older students, while learning the arts and knowledge of men, are to seek more of divine wisdom and to learn divine laws, both natural and moral, because obedience to those laws brings life and happiness in this world and in the world to come. Through works together with word people learn of God and learn that true greatness is honoring God by revealing character in daily life so that lives fulfill His purpose. That learning keeps faith strong as the only real safeguard against sin and power to resist temptation, which is needed because the human heart is inclined to evil and is endangered by sown skepticism. Nature's regular witness can teach children to see the love of Christ, to recognize that He made the laws governing living things, and to learn obedience to the law through creation's object lessons.
In great forbearance and long-suffering God surrounds even idolatrous and rebellious and ungrateful men with bounties as a trust. Every temporal blessing utters speech and shows knowledge of the Giver, including rain and sunshine, beauty, food, birdsong, fragrance and loveliness of flowers, fruits, golden harvests, cattle upon the hills, raiment and dwellings, flocks and herds, gold and silver, friends and health, and ten thousand unnoticed mercies silently falling in the pathway, joined to the daily blessings of providence as a continuing witness. To refuse to listen to that voice, with the warnings and counsels and reproofs of the word, and to ignore that witness, causes God to remove His protecting hand and to speak through judgments. To persist stubbornly in impenitence and idolatry while refusing the heart to God leaves want and desolation and wretchedness where providential care is withdrawn.
Day after day and night after night keep speaking without pause, declaring through the created heavens and earth the glory and skilled handiwork of the living Creator and Ruler. Their voice goes out through all the earth to its ends, understood beyond human speech and language in sun and moon, changing seasons, hills and mountains, wind and rain, and every temporal blessing of providence. What they make known is His power and wisdom, His grandeur and character, His tender fatherly love, goodness and mercy, and His desire to make His children happy. The book of nature and the written word come from the same mind and agree, so nature reflects divine truth as from a mirror and teaches obedience to the wise and beneficent laws through which He works. This witness calls all to behold and study, to learn and teach its lessons to children, and to answer with continual thanksgiving, reverence and praise, for to refuse to listen and persist in impenitence is to be left to want and desolation when protecting care is withdrawn.
Day And Night Speak
Day unto day keeps uttering speech and night unto night keeps showing knowledge, with each succeeding day and night continually speaking through creation and making God known. The unceasing succession of day and night bears witness without pause, day after day and night after night imparting knowledge of God through the natural world. The regular order itself testifies, appointed as a created agency to declare Him throughout the earth.
This speech is the heavens declaring glory and the firmament showing handiwork, joined by day and night in the same continual declaration. Day speaking to day and night showing knowledge to night is that heavenly proclamation of glory and handiwork. Its voice goes out through all the earth to the end of the world, heard where there is no speech nor language and understood beyond the limits of spoken tongues. Successive days and successive nights communicate everywhere on earth without spoken words, so the witness is heard in every speech and language and to the ends of the world.
The sun and moon with their differing lights declare this glory, and the ever-changing scenes of the recurring seasons give fresh proof day after day and night after night. The hills and the mountains, molded and balanced so they are not moved except at command, belong to this same witness. The wind, the sun, the rain, the snow, and the ice declare it as ministers appointed to do the will.
Every temporal blessing utters speech and shows knowledge of the Giver. Rain and sunshine, beauty, food, birdsong, flowers, fruits, harvests, cattle upon the hills, flocks and herds, raiment and dwellings, gold and silver, friends and health, and ten thousand unnoticed mercies silently falling in the pathway are the voice. The daily blessings of providence are this continuing witness, joined to spiritual blessings, seasons of refreshing, heavenly manna, food and gladness, and morning and evening rejoicing.
The beauties of nature have a tongue that speaks without ceasing to the senses and invites attention and meditation. From thunder and the ocean to birdsong, hills, trees, flowers, and the heavens, its many voices bear witness. Sunbeam, green fields, lofty trees, buds and flowers, passing cloud, falling rain, babbling brook, sun, moon, and stars all speak to the open heart and listening ear and bid men become acquainted with the Maker.
What Nature Reveals
Day unto day and night unto night make known through creation that God is the living Creator and Supreme Ruler, and reveal His glory, power, wisdom, skill, grandeur, character, love, goodness, mercy, and eternal kingdom. The recurring order continually communicates this knowledge, with the sun and moon in their differing lights declaring glory and teaching of Him and His everlasting kingdom. The works display skill, power, and grandeur, and their lessons are to be learned and taught, while the Sabbath directs observers to recognize in them wisdom, power, and love. Even without spoken language this witness goes out continually, displaying goodness and mercy yet, because creation is blighted by sin, unable to reveal moral character perfectly or give complete knowledge.
Its testimony tells of tender fatherly care and desire to make His children happy. That care is seen in wonderful adaptation to human needs and happiness, and in provision for even the humblest creatures. Hill and vale, river and sea are the Father's handiwork expressing love for humanity, not to be fully appreciated without seeing that expression. The earth was created and filled with life and gladness by One infinite in power and great in goodness, mercy, and love, whose glory is declared by the many voices of earth and sea and sky everywhere without spoken words.
In Eden nature was full of the knowledge of God and teeming with divine instruction, vocal with wisdom to attentive ears as humanity communed with God in His works and the message spoke to the eye and entered the heart. After transgression the brightness from the face of God departed from the face of nature, and nature was marred and defiled by sin, with traces of the work of the prince of the power of the air seen upon it. What is seen today gives only a faint conception of Eden's beauty and glory, yet much that is beautiful remains with traces of original loveliness, from thunder and ocean to birdsong, hills, trees, flowers, and heavens bearing witness to power, care, and love of beauty. Even in its blighted state all things reveal the handiwork of the great Master Artist and still speak of God, for while in briars, thistles, thorns, and tares the law of condemnation may be read, the beauty of natural things and their adaptation to human needs show that love and mercy are still manifested to the world.
Nature responds at once when called to testify to what has been made, never denies God and never refuses obedience to any intimation of His will. All created works act in sublime harmony with the laws, amid towering rocks and everlasting hills showing greatness, majesty, and power, while human beings alone disobey and array themselves in opposition to the law and principles of the government, with fallen beings alone refusing full obedience in words and works at variance with God. Nature is not God and must not be worshiped, for the heavens and natural wonders are created agencies appointed to bear witness, having no power apart from what He continually supplies as He creates and upholds all things. Because it is blighted by sin it cannot perfectly reveal His moral character or give a complete knowledge of Him, though it points to God and to Jesus Christ as Creator.
Nature Scripture And Law
The book of nature and the written word bear the impress of the same master mind and come from the same source. By different methods and in different languages they witness to the same great truths, always agreeing and shedding light upon each other. Science keeps discovering new wonders but brings from its research nothing that, rightly understood, conflicts with divine revelation. Together the two books make God better known by teaching His character and the wise, beneficent laws through which He works, leading to worship and trust in His word.
Divine truth revealed in Scripture is reflected as from a mirror in the face of nature. Nature rightly studied and interpreted is an extended page of the Word, vocal with wisdom and teeming with instruction that leads heavenward. The whole natural world is designed to be an interpreter of the things of God and a great lesson book to guide lost sheep back to the fold. Christ made nature speak, speaking of things He Himself had made and using shrub and flower and seedtime and harvest to lay open divine, momentous truths bound up with natural things.
Each succeeding day and night keeps speaking and showing knowledge by joining the heavens and the firmament in declaring glory and handiwork. Reading this psalm often teaches how the Lord binds up His law with His created works. Nature read as a lesson-book teaches humanity's unity with nature and God, the dominion of law, the results of breaking that law, and lessons of obedience to the will of the Creator. Teachers are called to behold the heavens and study the works in nature, to strive to understand His wonderful works, to commit the lessons nature teaches to memory, and to open the eyes of the senses to take in beautiful things. The Sabbath directs people to observe nature and to contemplate and recognize in it the Creator's wisdom, power, and love.
As the works of God are studied, the Holy Spirit flashes conviction into the mind, not the conviction of logical reasoning. Unless the mind is too dark to know God and the eye too dim to see Him and the ear too dull to hear His voice, a deeper meaning is grasped. Then the sublime spiritual truths of the written word are impressed on the heart. The psalm cannot be spoken of intelligently unless talents are consecrated to God. Understanding Christ's sacrifice for humanity awakens responsibility to serve Him.
Responding To The Witness
Day unto day and night unto night keep speaking and showing knowledge of God through the heavens declaring glory and the firmament showing handiwork, with a voice heard through all the earth to the end of the world where there is no speech nor language. The verse calls teachers to behold the heavens and study the works in nature and to strive to understand those wonderful works. Teachers and learners are to commit the lessons nature teaches to memory, to open the eyes of the senses and take in beautiful things, to read this psalm often to learn how the law is bound up with created works, and to contemplate what has been made by hand. Its lessons display skill and power and grandeur and point the mind to the Creator and reveal love and laws governing nature, and they are to be learned and taught to children.
God uses this continual witness to turn the mind from the artificial to the natural. Lifting the eyes to the hills gives better understanding, for the mountains molded and balanced so they are not moved except at command, and the wind and sun and rain and snow and ice as ministers to do the will, are the work of God. The same witness of day and night declaring the living Creator and Supreme Ruler is what people are to contemplate on the Sabbath, which directs them to observe nature and recognize wisdom and power and love in it.
The changing days and nights with the sights and sounds of creation speak to human senses and invite people to know their Creator. This witness remains ongoing and available to those willing to listen and understand. The beauties of nature have a tongue that speaks without ceasing, from sunbeam and green fields and lofty trees to buds and flowers and passing cloud and falling rain and babbling brook and sun and moon and stars, inviting attention and meditation and bidding men become acquainted with the Maker of them all. The open heart is impressed with love and glory seen in the works of the hand, and the listening ear hears and understands the communications of God through the works of nature.
The verse is words of praise and adoration and an exhortation to be joyful in the Lord. It requires never again to fail to offer thanksgiving and praise for goodness, to praise in assemblies with voice and melody, forgetting difficulties and troubles and praising for freedom from sin and for opportunity to live for the glory of the name. Nature as an open book teaches power and love and wisdom, through which people grow in reverence and gratitude and keep God in remembrance. This continual speech gives elevated food for thought that leads to love and adoration of the Creator.
The ever-changing scenes of the recurring seasons give fresh proof day after day and night after night of glory and power and love, bringing lessons of wisdom and healing for all. Older students, while learning the arts and knowledge of men, are to seek more of divine wisdom and to learn divine laws, both natural and moral, because obedience to those laws brings life and happiness in this world and in the world to come. Through works together with word people learn of God and learn that true greatness is honoring God by revealing character in daily life so that lives fulfill His purpose. That learning keeps faith strong as the only real safeguard against sin and power to resist temptation, which is needed because the human heart is inclined to evil and is endangered by sown skepticism. Nature's regular witness can teach children to see the love of Christ, to recognize that He made the laws governing living things, and to learn obedience to the law through creation's object lessons.
In great forbearance and long-suffering God surrounds even idolatrous and rebellious and ungrateful men with bounties as a trust. Every temporal blessing utters speech and shows knowledge of the Giver, including rain and sunshine, beauty, food, birdsong, fragrance and loveliness of flowers, fruits, golden harvests, cattle upon the hills, raiment and dwellings, flocks and herds, gold and silver, friends and health, and ten thousand unnoticed mercies silently falling in the pathway, joined to the daily blessings of providence as a continuing witness. To refuse to listen to that voice, with the warnings and counsels and reproofs of the word, and to ignore that witness, causes God to remove His protecting hand and to speak through judgments. To persist stubbornly in impenitence and idolatry while refusing the heart to God leaves want and desolation and wretchedness where providential care is withdrawn.