Psalms 19:4 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּכָל־	be.khol	in all	H3605 →
הָאָ֨רֶץ׀	ha.'A.retz	the earth	H776 →
יָ֘צָ֤א	ya.Tza'	it has gone out	H3318 →
קַוָּ֗ם	ka.Vam	line their	H6957 →
וּבִקְצֵ֣ה	u.vik.Tzeh	and at [the] end of	H7097 →
תֵ֭בֵל	Te.vel	[the] world	H8398 →
מִלֵּיהֶ֑ם	mi.lei.Hem	words their	H4405 →
לַ֝שֶּׁ֗מֶשׁ	la.She.mesh	for the sun	H8121 →
שָֽׂם־	sam-	he has put	H7760 →
אֹ֥הֶל	'O.hel	a tent	H168 →
בָּהֶֽם׃	ba.Hem	in them

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Malachi 4:2
“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
leads to
- Jeremiah 33:6
  Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- Psalms 84:11
  For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
- Isaiah 30:26
  The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds…
- Luke 1:78
  because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,
- John 8:12
  Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Through
Romans 10:18
But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
leads to
- Matthew 24:14
  And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
- Romans 1:8
  First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.
Through
Psalms 104:2
He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,
leads to
- Isaiah 40:22
  He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Romans 10:18But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”Genesis 1:14–18And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.Job 38:5Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?Joshua 10:13So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”Psalms 104:2He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,Malachi 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.Psalms 98:3He has remembered His love and faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.Joshua 10:12On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”2 Corinthians 10:13–16We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us—a field that reaches even to you.Isaiah 49:6He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”Hosea 6:3So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.2 Corinthians 10:13We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us—a field that reaches even to you.Psalms 20:5May we shout for joy at your victory and raise a banner in the name of our God. May the LORD grant all your petitions.Habakkuk 3:11Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

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◈Paul's use of Psalm 19:4 in Romans 10:18contested · tier A

Paul quotes Psalm 19:4 — "their line is gone out through all the earth" — in Romans 10:18, applying the heavens' silent witness to the preached gospel. This is the hinge of the natural-versus-special-revelation question.

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The quotation is real and near-verbatim from the Septuagint, and it is the hinge the gospel-in-the-stars argument tries to turn. Psalm 19:4 says of the heavens "Their line is gone out through all the earth", and Paul renders it "Their sound went out into all the earth" (Romans 10:18, ASV) while arguing about gospel proclamation - so does the sky preach the gospel? Read in context it points the other way. Paul's argument in Romans 10 runs from verse 17 - faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ - so the Psalm 19 line is applied to the PREACHED word going everywhere, not to a message legible in the constellations (Beale and Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, 2007).

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Quoted here
Romans 10:18
Paul quotes Ps 19:4 ('their line is gone out through all the earth') in Rom 10:18, applying the heavens' silent witness to the preached gospel - the hinge of the natural-vs-special-revelation question the page turns on.
Rom 10:18 quoting Ps 19:4 (LXX); Beale & Carson, CNTUOT (2007)

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