Introduction
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
Two methods of divine manifestation in nature and in revelation stamp this beautiful psalm with its proper individuality. The production belongs to David’s maturer years, and is the fruit of a profound experience of the works and ways of God. To nature, as a source of knowledge of God, he gives due credit; but to the written law of God belongs the paramount praise, as the only adequate source of that knowledge of God and of man’s relation to him which leads to salvation. The occasion and date are unknown.
The divisions of the psalm are two: Psalms 19:1-6, the glory of God as manifested in creation; Psalms 19:7-14, the more perfect manifestation of God in the written law. Psalms 19:12-14 are a practical application of the second division.
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