SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:5
Y él, como un novio que sale de su tálamo; se alegra, como un gigante, para correr el camino.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 18:5
Verse 5. Which is as a bridegroom, &c. ] This is a reference to the rising of the sun, as the following verse is to the setting. He makes his appearance above the horizon with splendour and majesty; every creature seems to rejoice at his approach; and during the whole of his course, through his whole circuit, his apparent revolution from east to west, and from one tropic to the same again, no part of the earth is deprived of its proper proportion of light and heat. The sun is compared to a bridegroom in his ornaments, because of the glory and splendour of his rays; and to a giant or strong man running a race, because of the power of his light and heat. The apparent motion of the sun, in his diurnal and annual progress, are here both referred to. Yet both of these have been demonstrated to be mere appearances. The sun's diurnal motion arises from the earth's rotation on its axis from west to east in twenty-three hours, fifty-six minutes, and four seconds, the mean or equal time which elapses between the two consecutive meridian-transits of the same fixed star. But on account of the sun's apparent ecliptic motion in the same direction, the earth must make about the three hundred and sixty-fifth part of a second revolution on its axis before any given point of the earth's surface can be again brought into the same direction with the sun as before: so that the length of a natural day is twenty-four hours at a mean rate. The apparent revolution of the sun through the twelve constellations of the zodiac in a sidereal year, is caused by the earth's making one complete revolution in its orbit in the same time. And as the earth's axis makes an angle with the axis of the ecliptic of about twenty-three degrees and twenty eight minutes, and always maintains its parallelism, i.e., is always directed to the same point of the starry firmament; from these circumstances are produced the regular change of the seasons, and continually differing lengths of the days and nights in all parts of the terraqueous globe, except at the poles and on the equator. When we say that the earth's axis is always directed to the same point of the heavens, we mean to be understood only in a general sense; for, owing to a very slow deviation of the terrestrial axis from its parallelism, named the precession of the equinoctial points, which becomes sensible in the lapse of some years, and which did not escape the observation of the ancient astronomers, who clearly perceived that it was occasioned by a slow revolution of the celestial poles around the poles of the ecliptic, the complete revolution of the earth in its orbit is longer than the natural year, or the earth's tropical revolution, by a little more than twenty minutes; so that in twenty-five thousand seven hundred and sixtythree entire terrestrial revolutions round the sun, the seasons will be renewed twenty-five thousand seven hundred and sixty- four times. And in half this period of twelve thousand eight hundred and eighty-two natural years, the points which are now the north and south poles of the heavens, around which the whole starry firmament appears to revolve, will describe circles about the then north and south poles of the heavens, the semi-diameters of which will be upwards of forty-seven degrees. Coming out of his chamber ] wtpjm mechuppatho, from under his veil.
It was a sort of canopy erected on four poles, which four Jews held over the bridegroom's head.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - The heavens so declare the glory of God, and proclaim his wisdom power, and goodness, that all ungodly men are left without excuse. The speak themselves to be works of God's hands; for they must have Creator who is eternal, infinitely wise, powerful, and good. The counter-changing of day and night is a great proof of the power of God and calls us to observe, that, as in the kingdom of nature, so in tha of providence, he forms the light, and creates the darkness, Isa 45:7 and sets the one against the other. The sun in the firmament is a emblem of the Sun of righteousness, the Bridegroom of the church, an the Light of the world, diffusing Divine light and salvation by his gospel to the nations of the earth. He delights to bless his church which he has espoused to himself; and his course will be unwearied a that of the sun, till the whole earth is filled with his light an salvation. Let us pray for the time when he shall enlighten, cheer, an make fruitful every nation on earth, with the blessed salvation. The have no speech or language, so some read it, and yet their voice i heard. All people may hear these preachers speak in their own tongu the wonderful works of God. Let us give God the glory of all the comfort and benefit we have by the lights of heaven, still lookin above and beyond them to the Sun of righteousness.
Original Hebrew
והוא 1931 כחתן 2860 יצא 3318 מחפתו 2646 ישׂישׂ 7797 כגבור 1368 לרוץ 7323 ארח׃ 734
