Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 19:2

In order more fully to illustrate the expressive richness of the Hebrew, I would direct the attention of my reader to the beautiful phraseology of the XIX. Psalm. The literal reading of the first and second verses may be thus given: —

"The heavens are telling the glory of God,

The firmament displaying the work of his hands;

Day unto day welleth forth speech,

Night unto night breatheth out knowledge."

Thus the four distinct terms in the original are preserved in the translation; and the overflowing fulness with which day unto day pours forth divine instruction, and the gentle whisperings of the silent night, are contrasted as in the Hebrew. —Henry Craik, 1860.