{"id":881,"date":"2011-05-10T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T20:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=881"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:36:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:36:25","slug":"the-heavens-declare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2011\/05\/10\/the-heavens-declare\/","title":{"rendered":"The heavens declare&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Contact Zoom Out from Earth\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3AQR17Ih9aE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;color: #808080\">[footage is from the intro of the movie Contact]<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The heavens declare the glory of God,<br \/>\nand the sky above<sup>1<\/sup> proclaims his handiwork.<br \/>\nDay to day pours out speech,<br \/>\nand night to night reveals knowledge.<br \/>\nThere is no speech, nor are there words,<br \/>\nwhose voice is not heard.<br \/>\nTheir voice<sup>2<\/sup> goes out through all the earth,<br \/>\nand their words to the end of the world.<br \/>\nIn them he has set a tent for the sun,<br \/>\nwhich comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber,<br \/>\nand, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.<br \/>\nts rising is from the end of the heavens,<br \/>\nand its circuit to the end of them,<br \/>\nand there is nothing hidden from its heat.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Psalm 19:1-6 ESV<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The great expanse of the universe bears witness to its Maker. When we sing of the glory of God or declare His majesty to those around us, we are joining a song that the galaxies have been singing since time first began.<\/p>\n<p>How great is our God.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50\" valign=\"top\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: xx-small\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><strong>19:1<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: xx-small\">Hebrew <em>the expanse<\/em>; compare Genesis 1:6-8<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50\" valign=\"top\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: xx-small\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><strong>19:4<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: xx-small\">Or <em>Their measuring line<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[footage is from the intro of the movie Contact] The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above1 proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice2 goes out through all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-misc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9496,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/9496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}