Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 148:6

"He hath also established them for ever and ever: He hath made a decree which shall not pass away." — Psalms 148:6 (ASV)

Established. —Literally, made to stand, i.e., set them up.

He has made... —Rather, he has made an ordinance, and will not transgress it. This interpretation is more obvious and natural than supplying a new subject to the second verb, as in “and none of them transgress it.”

This anticipates, though only in form, the modern scientific doctrine of the inviolability of natural order. It is the imperishable faithfulness of God that renders the law invariable.

See the remarkable passages, Jeremiah 31:36; Jeremiah 33:20, from which we conclude that a covenant was understood to have been made between God and nature, as between Jehovah and Israel, the one being as imperishable as the other. A comparison of the two passages referred to shows that the Hebrew words ordinance and covenant could be used synonymously.

The Authorised Version, which, following the Septuagint and Vulgate, makes the ordinance itself imperishable, violates the usage of the Hebrew verb.