Psalms 50:4

He shall call to the heavens from above Better, in continuation of the preceding verse, Let him call to the heavens above. The object of the summons is -that he may judge his people." Heaven and earth, the whole world of nature, are summoned to be witnesses of the judgement, for they are far older than man, and have watched the whole course of Israel's history. Cp. Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 4:32; Deuteronomy 31:28; Deuteronomy 32:1; Isaiah 1:2; Micah 1:2; Micah 6:1-2. The poetical idea finds a strange equivalent in the conception of modern science that every action is recorded by a corresponding physical change, so that Nature is in truth a witness to the actions of man [25].

[25] See Babbage, Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, ch. 9., "On the Permanent Impression of our Words and Actions on the Globe we inhabit."