It is extremely powerful, the idea in this psalm, that in this 'unformed' embryo God already sees the whole future. In the Lord's book of life, the days that this creature will live and will fill with works during his time on earth are already written.
Quotes about psalm (8 Quotes)
Grinder, who serenely grindest; At my door the Hundredth Psalm.
We too are ashes as we watch and hear The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise, Of one whose promised thoughts of other days, Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed, The service record of his youth wiped out, His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.
... I refuse to believe I am a piece of dust scuttering through uncaring space. I believe I count that I have work to do that there is need of me. I have a place. I want to live. The moment is Now Now is my forever. I am still somebody somebody on whom nothing is lost. With my last breath, I sing a psalm.
The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.
All I saw farther, in the last confusion, Was, that King George slipped into heaven for one And when the tumult dwindled to a calm, I left him practising the hundredth psalm.