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Psalm 19:2

Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
2Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.
4Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
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Notice

The repeated days and nights make the sky’s witness to God seem both abundant and easy to overlook amid familiar routines.

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Where else Scripture says this

9 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 74:16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.Day and night bear witness to God in Psalm 19, and Psalm 74 names both as belonging to him.
Psalm 134:1–3A Song of Ascents. Look! Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the LORD’s house!Night is a time of witness in Psalm 19 and a time for God’s servants to praise him in Psalm 134.
Genesis 1:5God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.The day and night that display knowledge in Psalm 19 receive their names from God in Genesis.
Genesis 1:17–18God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,The sky shows God’s handiwork in Psalm 19; Genesis describes God setting lights there to illuminate the earth.
Psalm 24:7–10Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.Glory connects the surrounding lines of Psalm 19 with Psalm 24: the heavens declare God’s glory, and the gates welcome the King of glory.
Genesis 8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”Psalm 19 describes the repeated witness of day and night; Genesis promises their continuance while the earth remains.
Psalm 78:3–6which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.Both passages concern knowledge communicated: the heavens display it in Psalm 19, while fathers pass it on in Psalm 78.
Isaiah 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.Making knowledge known links these passages: the heavens display knowledge, and the father makes God’s truth known to children.
Exodus 15:20–21Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.The connection is limited: the heavens pour out speech in Psalm 19; Miriam and the women use tambourines and dance.
Where this verse fits

An ordinary day. praise and worship. gratitude.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Watch the sky for five minutes at dusk

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Encouragement

An ordinary day belongs within this poem’s praise. The heavens keep declaring God’s glory through the familiar return of daylight and darkness.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).