his works. That it was composed or suggested in the night seems probable, from ver. 3, where the psalmist represents himself as surveying or “considering” the “heavens, the work” of the Divine “fingers,” and as making the “moon and the stars” the subject of his contemplation, but not mentioning the sun. In such contemplations, when looking on the vastness and grandeur, the beauty and order, of the heavenly hosts, it was not unnatural for the writer to think of his own comparative littleness, and