Here's the contemporary reading from today. Not startling but some nice phrases to soak into. A wee bit of a lean towards The Message but not much. Voice 1 is the King James version and Voice 2 is original.
Voice 1 |
The heavens declare the glory
of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork |
Voice 2 |
God's glory is unfolded
across the sky in the deepest azure blue and all the heavens from horizon to
horizon reveal God’s love of starlight and galaxy. |
Voice 1 |
Day unto day uttereth speech,
and night unto night sheweth knowledge. |
Voice 2 |
As the day turns into night
and into day once more, the silent, rising praise is spoken through sunrise
and sunset. Oh, that you could hear the alleluias that are wrapped up ready
for the day to break and the glory held in sacred whispers at midnight |
Voice 1 |
There is no speech nor
language, where their voice is not heard. |
Voice 2 |
No language yet exists that
can contain the praise of creation. It is in the silence that the truth is
spoken. Listen in, tune in, wait in, the pulse of silence for it is the voice
of the creator. |
Voice 1 |
Their line is gone out through
all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a
tabernacle for the sun, |
Voice 2 |
The blue of heaven is so
vast it fills one horizon to the next and has become the play pen for the
light: a great dome of light that starves the darkness and has been named
Sun. |
Voice 1 |
Which is as a bridegroom
coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race |
Voice 2 |
Like a newly married groom
seeing the world with new eyes, leaping into the day with new energy and
enthusiasm and with great steps crosses a thousand acres of sky running the
race called Day |
Voice 1 |
His going forth is from the
end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing
hid from the heat thereof. |
Voice 2 |
Beginning in the East and
sinking into the west this it the path of the light, burning away all that
stops it, warming the earth for life, and hearts for faith. |
Voice 1 |
The heavens are telling the
glory of God. |
Voice 2 |
The whole sky reveals the
size and mystery of creation |
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