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Psalms 19:2

Day after day they pour forth speech, And night after night they display knowledge.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Astronomy;   God;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Night;   Religion;   Wisdom;   Scofield Reference Index - Redemption;   Thompson Chain Reference - Night;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Call of God, the;   Day;   Night;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Astronomy;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Creation;   Revelation;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Create, Creation;   Nature, Natural;   Religion;   Sanctification;   Testimony;   Time;   Word;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Meditation;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Astronomy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Ethics;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   World;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Inspiration and Revelation;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Signs;   Sun;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adoration;   Law in the Old Testament;   Praise;   Psalms, Book of;   Purity;   Revelation;   Time;   Wisdom;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Moses ben Maimon;   Shirah, Pereḳ (Pirḳe);  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 28;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Day after day they pour out speech;night after night they communicate knowledge.
King James Version
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
English Standard Version
Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.
New Century Version
Day after day they tell the story; night after night they tell it again.
New English Translation
Day after day it speaks out; night after night it reveals his greatness.
Amplified Bible
Day after day pours forth speech, And night after night reveals knowledge.
New American Standard Bible
Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge.
World English Bible
Day after day they pour forth speech, And night after night they display knowledge.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Day vnto day vttereth the same, & night vnto night teacheth knowledge.
Legacy Standard Bible
Day to day pours forth speech,And night to night reveals knowledge.
Berean Standard Bible
Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.
Contemporary English Version
Each day informs the following day; each night announces to the next.
Complete Jewish Bible
The heavens declare the glory of God, the dome of the sky speaks the work of his hands.
Darby Translation
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Easy-to-Read Version
Each new day tells more of the story, and each night reveals more and more about God's power.
George Lamsa Translation
Day after day utters speech, and night after night shows knowledge.
Good News Translation
Each day announces it to the following day; each night repeats it to the next.
Lexham English Bible
Every day they pour forth speech, and every night they tell knowledge.
Literal Translation
Day by day they pour forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
One daye telleth another, and one night certifieth another.
American Standard Version
Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night showeth knowledge.
Bible in Basic English
Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork;
King James Version (1611)
Day vnto day vttereth speach, and night vnto night sheweth knowledge.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A day occasioneth talke therof vnto a day: and a night teacheth knoweledge vnto a nyght.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Day to day utters speech, and night to night proclaims knowledge.
English Revised Version
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The dai tellith out to the dai a word; and the nyyt schewith kunnyng to the nyyt.
Update Bible Version
Day to day utters speech, And night to night shows knowledge.
Webster's Bible Translation
Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night showeth knowledge.
New King James Version
Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge.
New Living Translation
Day after day they continue to speak; night after night they make him known.
New Life Bible
Day to day they speak. And night to night they show much learning.
New Revised Standard
Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Day, unto day, doth pour forth speech, and, night, unto night, doth breathe out knowledge.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(18-3) Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night sheweth knowledge.
Revised Standard Version
Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge.
Young's Literal Translation
Day to day uttereth speech, And night to night sheweth knowledge.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge.

Contextual Overview

1 <> The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech, And night after night they display knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, Where their voice is not heard. 4 Their voice has gone out through all the eretz, Their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, Like a strong man rejoicing to run his course. 6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, His circuit to the ends of it; There is nothing hid from the heat of it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Day unto: Psalms 24:7-10, Psalms 78:3-6, Psalms 134:1-3, Psalms 148:12, Exodus 15:20, Exodus 15:21, Isaiah 38:19

night unto: Psalms 74:16, Psalms 136:8, Psalms 136:9, Genesis 1:17, Genesis 1:18, Genesis 8:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:5 - and Genesis 1:31 - very good Psalms 28:5 - operation

Cross-References

Genesis 18:4
Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
Genesis 19:17
It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!"
Genesis 19:21
He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
Genesis 19:28
He looked toward Sedom and `Amorah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis 19:29
It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Avraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Acts 16:15
When she and her household were immersed, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." She urged us.
Hebrews 13:2
Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Day untoday uttereth speech,.... This, with the following clause,

and night untonight showeth knowledge, some understand of the constant and continued succession of day and night; which declares the glory of God, and shows him to be possessed of infinite knowledge and wisdom; and which brings a new accession of knowledge to men; others, of the continual declaration of the glory of God, and of the knowledge of him made by the heavens and the firmament, the ordinances of which always continue; the sun for a light by day, and the moon and stars for a light by night; and so night and day constantly and successively proclaim the glory and wisdom of God: but rather this is to be understood of the constancy of the Gospel ministry, and the continuance of the evangelic revelation. The apostles of Christ persevered in their work, and laboured in the word and doctrine night and day: they were in it at all seasons; yea, were instant in season and out of season; and though they are dead, the Gospel continues, and will do as long as day and night remain: and these, like overflowing fountains, sent forth in great abundance, as the word x rendered "uttereth" signifies, the streams of divine light and knowledge; they were full of matter, and their tongues were as the pen of a ready writer; they diffused the savour of the knowledge of Christ, in great plenty, in every place where they came. These words express the continuance of the Gospel revelation, as the next do the extent of it.

x יביע "eructat", Musculus, Munster, Vatablus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Ainsworth; "scaturit", Muis; "scaturiendo effundit", Cocceius; "copiose ac constanter instar foecundae cujusdam scaturiginis protrudit, emittit", Gejerus; so Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Day unto day - One day to another; or, each successive day. The day that is passing away proclaims the lesson which it had to convey from the movements of the heavens, about God; and thus the knowledge of God is accumulating as the time moves on. Each day has its own lesson in regard to the wisdom, the power, and the goodness of God, and that lesson is conveyed from one day to another. There is a perpetual testimony thus given to the wisdom and power of the Great Creator.

Uttereth speech - The word here rendered uttereth means properly to pour forth; to pour forth copiously as a fountain. Compare Proverbs 18:4; Proverbs 1:23; Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 15:28. Hence, the word means to utter; to declare. The word “speech” means properly “a word;” and then, “a lesson;” or “that which speech conveys.” The idea is, that the successive days thus impart instruction, or convey lessons about God. The day does this by the returning light, and by the steady and sublime movement of the sun in the heavens, and by all the disclosures which are made by the light of the sun in his journeyings.

And night unto night showeth knowledge - Knowledge respecting God. Each successive night does this. It is done by the stars in their courses; in their order; their numbers; their ranks; their changes of position; their rising and their setting. There are as many lessons conveyed to man about the greatness and majesty of God by the silent movements of each night as there are by the light of the successive days - just as there may be as many lessons conveyed to the soul about God in the dark night of affliction and adversity, as there are when the sun of prosperity shines upon us.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 19:2. Day unto day uttereth speech — Each day is represented as teaching another relative to some new excellence discovered in these manifold works of God. The nights also, by the same figure, are represented as giving information to each other of the increase of knowledge already gained.

"The labours of these our instructers know no intermission; but they continue incessantly to lecture us in the science of Divine wisdom. There is one glory of the sun, which shines forth by day; and there are other glories of the moon and of the stars, which become visible by night. And because day and night interchangeably divide the world between them, they are therefore represented as transmitting, in succession, each to other, the task enjoined them, like the two parts of a choir, chanting forth alternately the praises of God." - Bishop Horne.


 
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