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Commentary for Psalms 19:5

בְּכָל־הָאָ֨רֶץ ׀ יָ֘צָ֤א קַוָּ֗ם וּבִקְצֵ֣ה תֵ֭בֵל מִלֵּיהֶ֑ם לַ֝שֶּׁ֗מֶשׁ שָֽׂם־אֹ֥הֶל בָּהֶֽם׃

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath He set a tent for the sun,

Rashi on Psalms

Their line goes forth throughout the earth The line of the heavens, which are stretched out over the face of the entire earth, and because of which their words are at the end of the world, for all speak of the wonders they see.
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Radak on Psalms

Their line is gone out through all the earth: – Their line, i.e. (the line) of their construction; and so (in the verse) "line upon line" (Is. 28:10), because the structure is made by stretching out the line. He means that the work of the spheres and constellations has gone out into all the earth. And so
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Rashi on Psalms

for the sun He made [i.e.,] the Holy One, blessed be He.
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