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Psalms 89:11
The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist declares God’s absolute ownership immediately after describing His victory over chaos and immediately before detailing His creation of the poles and mountains. This statement functions as the foundational premise for the surrounding claims of divine sovereignty.
The words — תֵּבֵל (te.Vel) = the world and מְלֹאָהּ (me.lo'Ah) = its fullness appear in the second clause to specify that every inhabitant and resource of the earth belongs to the Creator who established it.
The thread — The claim of divine ownership over the cosmos runs through 1 Chronicles 29:11 and Genesis 1:1, while Psalm 115:16 echoes the structural division between the highest heavens and the earth.
Why it lands — The text asserts that God’s creative act established His legal and practical claim over all space and substance, requiring a reader to acknowledge His sole authority before evaluating any subsequent action.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
Cross-references
- 1 Chronicles 29:11 Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
- Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Psalms 115:16 The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.
- Psalms 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
- 1 Corinthians 10:26 for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”
- Psalms 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.
- Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
- Job 41:11 Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
- 1 Corinthians 10:28 But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—