Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!
Parallel translations
- KJV Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
- BSB Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.
- NKJV Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all you stars of light!
- NASB Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all stars of light!
- NLT Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you twinkling stars!
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Quick answer
The sun, moon, and stars are called to praise God. The celestial lights testify to the glory of their Maker.
Overview
The great heavenly bodies, which pagan nations worshiped, are here commanded to worship the true God instead. They are creatures, not gods, declaring His glory by their existence. The heavens declare the glory of God who made them through His eternal Word (Psalm 19:1; John 1:3).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 19:1–6For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
- Ps 136:7–9To him who made the great lights; for his loving kindness endures forever:
- Ps 8:1–3For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!
- Gen 1:14–16God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
- Deut 4:19and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
- Gen 8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
- Ps 89:36–37His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.
- Jer 33:20“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
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Christ at the center
The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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