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This is a universal message that goes out day and night that God created the heavens. The firmament is the work of His hands. The heavens testify to the creation of our world by God. The figure of speech used to convey this literal truth is personification (Bullinger 1974:865). Calvin (1975:1:5:51-237) argues that the knowledge of God is evident by the creation of his world and universe, and the continuing sustaining of it. This Psalm attributes a witness of His divinity to man. Ross writes that the creation points to the creator. This silent message is communicated day after day and night after night. It is the truth that God is the creator. It is not an audible message that one can hear but the heavens declare the truth of God as the creator. This silent message reaches to the very ends of God’s earth (1983:807 in Walvoord and Zuck (eds.) 1983). Man looking up to the heavens receives this message. The heavens become an object lesson declaring both the glory of God and that the heavens are the work of the creator, God.