John Calvin Reformed @genevareformer

David does not dwell long on God's power in creation, though that alone would demand our praise. His real theme is God's special goodness toward mankind itself. This is what ravishes him: not merely that the heavens declare His glory, but that He has bent His care toward us.

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Commenting on Psalm 8:1-9

C.H. Spurgeon Reformed Baptist @princeofpreachers

Here, like a good composer, the poet returns to his key-note, falling back, as it were, into his first state of wondering adoration. What he started with as a proposition in the first verse, he closes with as a well proven conclusion, with a sort of quod erat demonstrandum.

Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

Notice David considers the heavens by night, when moon and stars are visible. We must look upward as God made us to do, erect and capable of it, letting what we see draw our thoughts heavenward. The heavens belong to God in a peculiar way, and they speak of His wisdom, power, and goodness.

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Commenting on Psalm 8:3-9