The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
Parallel translations
- WEB The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.
- BSB The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.
- NKJV The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all its fullness, You have founded them.
- NASB ¶The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all it contains, You have established them.
- NLT The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours; everything in the world is yours—you created it all.
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Quick answer
The heavens and earth, the world and all its fullness, belong to God, for He founded them. God is the sovereign Creator and owner of all things.
Overview
Ethan affirms God's ownership of all creation, which He established. This universal lordship undergirds confidence in His covenant power. The Creator of all is revealed in the New Testament as the One through whom all things were made, namely Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- 1 Chr 29:11Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
- Gen 1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- Ps 115:16The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
- Ps 24:1–2The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
- 1 Cor 10:26For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.
- Ps 50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
- Gen 2:1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
- 1 Cor 10:28But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof:
- Job 41:11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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