Psalms Chapter 8 verse 3 Holy Bible
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
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When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;
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When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;
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When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
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Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thy enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
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When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
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For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.
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Psalms 8 : 3 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - When I consider thy heavens (comp. Psalm 19:1; Psalm 33:6; Psalm 104:2). David, in his shepherd-life, had had abundant opportunity of "considering the heavens," and had evidently scanned them with the eye of a poet and an intense admirer of nature. It is probably in remembrance of the nights when he watched his father's flock, that he makes no mention of the sun, but only of "the moon and the stars." The work of thy fingers; and therefore "thy heavens." Often as the "hand of God" is mentioned in Scripture, it is but very rarely that we hear of his "finger" or "fingers." So far as I am aware, the only places are Exodus 8:19; Exodus 31:18; Deuteronomy 9:10; and Luke 11:20. The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained (comp. Genesis 1:16).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) When I consider.--Literally, see, scan.Ordained.--Or, as in margin, founded--i.e., created, formed; but the English word aptly introduces the idea of order in the kosmos. Comp.:--"Know the cause why music was ordained?--SHAKESPEARE.In our humid climate we can hardly imagine the brilliance of an Eastern night. "There," writes one of a night in Palestine, "it seems so, bearing down upon our heads with power are the steadfast splendours of that midnight sky;" but, on the other hand, the fuller revelations of astronomy do more than supply the place of this splendour, in filling us with amazement and admiration at the vast spaces the stars fill, and their mighty movements in their measured orbits.