Note that. Their rule throughout the earth, whether inhabited or not—their law of right is thereon; but their words, spoken to human souls, to the end of the inhabited world.
“In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,” &c. Literally, a tabernacle, or curtained tent, with its veil and its hangings; also of the colors of His desert tabernacle—blue, and purple, and scarlet.
Thus far the psalm describes the manner of this great heaven’s message.
Thenceforward, it comes to the matter of it.
§ 31. Observe, you have the two divisions of the declaration. The heavens (compare Psalm viii.) declare the eternal glory of God before men, and the firmament the daily mercy of God towards men. And the eternal glory is in this—that the law of the Lord is perfect, and His testimony sure, and His statutes right.
And the daily mercy in this—that the commandment of the Lord is pure, and His fear is clean, and His judgments true and righteous.
There are three oppositions:—
Between law and commandment.
Between testimony and fear.