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Brenton's Septuagint

Psalms 102:25

In the beginning thou, O Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Earth;   God;   Heaven;   Immortality;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Power;   Prophecy;   Quotations and Allusions;   Thompson Chain Reference - Creator;   God;   Heavens;   Mutability;   Mutability-Immutability;   Transient, the Things That Are;   Transient-Enduring;   World, the;   The Topic Concordance - Change;   Creation;   Earth;   Endurance;   God;   Heaven/the Heavens;   Newness;   Time;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Christ Is God;   Earth, the;   Power of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Creation;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Time;   World;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Conflagration;   Koran;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Creation;   Heaven;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Creation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ancient of Days;   Praise;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hand ;   Necessity;   New Jerusalem;   Psalms (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Psalms, Book of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Pelican;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jesus Christ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Inspiration;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 23;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth and made the heavens with your hands.
English Revised Version
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Update Bible Version
Of old did you lay the foundation of the earth; And the heavens are the work of your hands.
New Century Version
In the beginning you made the earth, and your hands made the skies.
New English Translation
In earlier times you established the earth; the skies are your handiwork.
Webster's Bible Translation
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens [are] the work of thy hands.
World English Bible
Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.
Amplified Bible
"At the beginning You founded the earth; The heavens are the work of Your hands.
English Standard Version
Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, thou foundidist the erthe in the bigynnyng; and heuenes ben the werkis of thin hondis.
Berean Standard Bible
In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
Contemporary English Version
In the beginning, Lord , you laid the earth's foundation and created the heavens.
American Standard Version
Of old didst thou lay the foundation of the earth; And the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Bible in Basic English
In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
Complete Jewish Bible
I plead, "God, your years last through all generations; so don't take me away when my life is half over!
Darby Translation
Of old hast thou founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands:
Easy-to-Read Version
Long ago, you made the world. You made the sky with your own hands!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I say: 'O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, Thou whose years endure throughout all generations.
King James Version (1611)
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy hands.
New Life Bible
You made the earth in the beginning. You made the heavens with Your hands.
New Revised Standard
Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou hast aforetime layde the foundation of the earth, and the heauens are the worke of thine hands.
George Lamsa Translation
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Good News Translation
long ago you created the earth, and with your own hands you made the heavens.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Of old - the earth, thou didst found, And, the work of thy hands, are the heavens;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(101-26) In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.
Revised Standard Version
Of old thou didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou hast before tyme layde the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy handes.
Christian Standard Bible®
Long ago you established the earth,and the heavens are the work of your hands.
Hebrew Names Version
Of old, you laid the foundation of the eretz. The heavens are the work of your hands.
King James Version
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Lexham English Bible
Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
Literal Translation
Before time You founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
Young's Literal Translation
Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands [are] the heavens.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou LORDE in the begynnynge hast layed ye foundacion of the earth, and the heauens are the workes of thy hondes.
New American Standard Bible
"In time of old You founded the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
New King James Version
Of old You laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Of old You founded the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
Legacy Standard Bible
Of old You founded the earth,And the heavens are the work of Your hands.

Contextual Overview

23 He answered him in the way of his strength: tell me the fewness of my days. 24 Take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are through all generations. 25 In the beginning thou, O Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands. 26 They shall perish, but thou remainest: and they all shall wax old as a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them, and they shall be changed. 27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. 28 The children of thy servants shall dwell securely, and their seed shall prosper for ever.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 1:1, Genesis 2:1, Exodus 20:11, Job 38:4-7, Proverbs 8:23-36, Jeremiah 32:17, Hebrews 1:10-12, Hebrews 3:3, Hebrews 3:4

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:8 - the pillars 2 Kings 19:15 - thou hast made 1 Chronicles 16:26 - the Lord Job 14:18 - the mountain Psalms 68:33 - of old Psalms 78:69 - earth Proverbs 8:25 - General Isaiah 34:4 - all the Isaiah 40:12 - measured Isaiah 40:22 - stretcheth Isaiah 40:26 - who hath Isaiah 42:5 - he that created Isaiah 45:12 - made the earth Isaiah 48:13 - hand Isaiah 51:13 - that hath Jeremiah 27:5 - made Lamentations 5:19 - remainest Daniel 7:9 - the Ancient Micah 5:2 - whose Zechariah 12:1 - which Mark 13:31 - Heaven Luke 16:17 - it John 1:3 - General 2 Corinthians 8:9 - though Colossians 1:16 - by him were Revelation 1:4 - him

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth,.... The lower part of the creation, the Lord's footstool, called the earth beneath: this has its foundation; though what it is cannot be well said, it cannot be searched out; it is sometimes said to be founded upon the waters, and yet so as not to be removed for ever,

Jeremiah 31:37, this shows the wisdom of God, as a wise master builder, and the stability of the earth; and is a proof of the deity of Christ, to whom these words belong: this is said to be done "of old", or "at" or "in the beginning", as Jarchi and the Targum; and so in Hebrews 1:10, where they are applied to the Messiah, the Son of God; and this, as it proves the eternity of Christ, who must be in the beginning, and before all things, so it confutes the notion of the eternity of the earth, received by some philosophers: besides, the words may be rendered, "before" g "thou foundest the earth"; and so refers to the preceding, "thy years", c. were before the earth was that is, from eternity, and so fully express the eternal existence of Christ:

and the heavens are the work of thy hands; these are the airy and starry heavens, and the heaven of heavens; which are creatures, and not to be worshipped, made by Christ himself, and are expressive of his power, wisdom, and glory.

g לפנים "antea", Pagninus, Montanus, Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Of old - See this passage fully explained in the notes at Hebrews 1:10-12. In the beginning; at the first. The phrase used here means literally “to the face;” then, “before” in the order of time. It means here, long ago; of olden time; at the beginning. The meaning is, that the years of God had stretched through all the generations of people, and all the changes which had occurred upon the earth; that at the very beginning he existed, and that he would continue to exist to the very close, unchangeably the same.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 102:25. Of old hast thou laid the foundation — None taught of God ever imagined the world to have been eternal. Of old, לפנים lephanim, before there were any faces or appearances, thou didst lay the foundations of the earth. It was created by thee; it did not grow by accretion or aggregation from a pre-existent nucleus. There was nothing; and thou didst produce being - substance or matter. Out of that created matter thou didst make the earth and the heavens.


 
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