Psalms 19:3

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

King James Version · Read in your translation · Open the Explore console

Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
speech	אֹ֭מֶר 'O.mer	H562	something said · noun, common masculine singular absolute
language	דְּבָרִ֑ים de.va.Rim	H1697	a word · noun, common masculine plural absolute
voice	קוֹלָֽם ko.Lam	H6963	a voice or sound · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
heard	נִשְׁמָ֥ע nish.Ma'	H8085	to hear intelligently (often with implication of attent… · verb, niphal active participle, masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shoulde…

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 19:1-6

From the things that are seen every day by all the world the psalmist, in these verses, leads us to the consideration of the invisible things of God, whose being appears incontestably evident and whose glory shines transcendently bright in the visible heavens, the structure and beauty of them, and the order and influence of the heavenly bodies. This instance of the divine power serves not only to show the folly of atheists, who see there is a heaven and yet say, "There is no God," who see the effect and yet say, "There is no cause," but to show the folly of idolaters also, and the vanity of their imagination, who, though the heavens declare the glory of God, yet gave that glory to the lights…

Read the whole note in the console

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 19:3

Though there is no articulate speech or words, yet without these their voice is heard (compare Margin).

John Gill on Psalms 19:3

There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard,.... Not the voice of the day and night; as if the sense was, that there is no people, of any speech or language under the sun, but there is something said every day and night of the weather, what it is, or will be, as the face of the heavens appears morning and evening: but of the heavens and firmament; the meaning of which some take to be this; either that though they have no proper speech nor language, yet there is a voice in them which is heard, declaring the glory of God and his handiworks; and the words may very well be rendered, "they have no speech nor words, without these their voice is heard"; or that there is no people…

Read the whole note in the console

John Calvin on Psalms 19:1-6

Psalm 19:1-6 1. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the expanse [442] proclaims the works of his hands. 2. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night publishes knowledge. [443] 3. There is no language and no speech [where] their voice is not heard. 4. Their writing has gone forth through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world: he hath set in them a tabernacle for the sun. 5. And he goeth forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber: he rejoiceth as a strong man to run his race. 6. His going forth is from the end of the heavens, and his circuit is to their utmost limits, and none is hidden from his heat. 1. The heavens declare the glory of God. [444] I have already…

The Church Fathers

"There is no speech nor language, in which their voices are not heard" [Psalm 19:3]. In which the voices of the Evangelists have not been heard, seeing that the Gospel was preached in every tongue.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 19

The accord and affinity of all things with one another that is controlled in an orderly and sequential manner is the primal, archetypal, true music. It is this music that the conductor of the universe skillfully strikes up in the unspoken speech of wisdom through these ever-occurring movements.
— Gregory of Nyssa, ON THE INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PSALMS 1:3.21

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Astronomy — The Hebrews were devout students of the wonders of the starry firmanent (Amos 5:8; Ps. 19). In the Book of Job, which is the oldest book of the Bible in all probability, the constellations are…
Psalms, Book Of — The present Hebrew name of the book is Tehill’im, “Praises;” but in the actual superscriptions of the psalms the word Tehillah is applied only to one, (Psalms 145:1) ... which is indeed emphatically…
Astronomy · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Call Of God, The · By his works — By his works
Meteorology And Celestial Phenomena · 9:7;26:7,8,11;27:20,21;28:24-27;29:19;36:27-33;37:6-22;38:8-11,22,24-29,31-35,37; — 9:7;26:7,8,11;27:20,21;28:24-27;29:19;36:27-33;37:6-22;38:8-11,22,24-29,31-35,37;
Religion · NATURAL — NATURAL

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 19:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 19:1-6

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 19:3

John Gill on Psalms 19:3

John Calvin on Psalms 19:1-6

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 19:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 19:1-6

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 19:3

John Gill on Psalms 19:3

John Calvin on Psalms 19:1-6

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 19:1-3

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 19:3-4

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 19:3