When I consider thy heavens - This means when I contemplate or look upon them. They are called his heavens because he made them, because he …

When I consider. — Literally, see, scan.

Ordained. — Or, as in margin, founded — i.e., c…

He, whose voice rolls the stars along, who makes those bright worlds to fly like sparks from the anvil of his omnipotence, how can he stoop so low …

As the Hebrew particle כי, ki, often has the same meaning as because or for, and simply affirms a thing, both the Greek …

When I consider your heavens
Where God dwells, and which he has made; the airy and starry heavens, which are to be s…

We are to consider the heavens, so that man may in this way be directed to set his affections on things above. What is man, so lowly a creature, th…

Previously, the psalmist offered a psalm in which David prayed because of his persecution; here, he offers a psalm of thanksgiving.

He prese…