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Contemporary English Version

Psalms 89:11

The heavens and the earth belong to you. And so does the world with all its people because you created them

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Divine;   Land;   Ownership, Divine;   Stewardship-Ownership;   The Topic Concordance - Belonging;   Creation;   Earth;   Heaven/the Heavens;   World;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ethan;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Providence of God;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Covenant;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Contrite;   Covenant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethan;   Ezrahite;   Lovingkindness;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   World;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Magnificat;   Wealth (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours.The world and everything in it—you founded them.
Hebrew Names Version
The heavens are yours, the eretz also is yours; The world and its fullness. You have founded them.
King James Version
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
English Standard Version
The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.
New Century Version
The skies and the earth belong to you. You made the world and everything in it.
New English Translation
The heavens belong to you, as does the earth. You made the world and all it contains.
Amplified Bible
The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all that is in it, You have founded and established them.
New American Standard Bible
The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all it contains, You have established them.
World English Bible
The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours; The world and its fullness. You have founded them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the world, and all that therein is.
Legacy Standard Bible
The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;The world and its fullness, You have founded them.
Berean Standard Bible
The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The world and its fullness You founded.
Complete Jewish Bible
You crushed Rahav like a carcass; with your strong arm you scattered your foes.
Darby Translation
Thine are the heavens, the earth also is thine; the world and its fulness, *thou* hast founded them.
Easy-to-Read Version
Everything in heaven and earth belongs to you. You made the world and everything in it.
George Lamsa Translation
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine; as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
Good News Translation
Heaven is yours, the earth also; you made the world and everything in it.
Lexham English Bible
The heavens are yours, the earth yours as well, the world with its fullness, because you founded them.
Literal Translation
The heavens are Yours, and the earth is Yours; the world and its fullness, You founded them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou breakest the proude, like one that is wounded, thou scatrest thine enemies abrode with thy mightie arme.
American Standard Version
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
Bible in Basic English
Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou didst crush Rahab, as one that is slain; Thou didst scatter Thine enemies with the arm of Thy strength.
King James Version (1611)
The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulnes thereof, thou hast founded them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the rounde worlde, and of all the plentie that is therin.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The heavens are thine, and the earth is thine: thou hast founded the world, and the fullness of it.
English Revised Version
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Heuenes ben thin, and erthe is thin; thou hast foundid the world, and the fulnesse therof;
Update Bible Version
The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours: The world and the fullness thereof, you have founded them.
Webster's Bible Translation
The heavens [are] thine, the earth also [is] thine: [as for] the world, and the fullness of it, thou hast founded them.
New King James Version
The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all its fullness, You have founded them.
New Living Translation
The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours; everything in the world is yours—you created it all.
New Life Bible
The heavens are Yours; and the earth is Yours. You have made the world and all that is in it.
New Revised Standard
The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it—you have founded them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thine, are the heavens, Yea, thine, the earth, The world and the fulness thereof, Thou, didst found them;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(88-12) Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded:
Revised Standard Version
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine; the world and all that is in it, thou hast founded them.
Young's Literal Translation
Thine [are] the heavens -- the earth also [is] Thine, The habitable world and its fulness, Thou hast founded them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all it contains, You have founded them.

Contextual Overview

5 Our Lord , let the heavens now praise your miracles, and let all of your angels praise your faithfulness. 6 None who live in the heavens can compare with you. 7 You are the most fearsome of all who live in heaven; all the others fear and greatly honor you. 8 You are Lord God All-Powerful! No one is as loving and faithful as you are. 9 You rule the roaring sea and calm its waves. 10 You crushed the monster Rahab, and with your powerful arm you scattered your enemies. 11 The heavens and the earth belong to you. And so does the world with all its people because you created them 12 and everything else. Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon gladly praise you. 13 You are strong and mighty! 14 Your kingdom is ruled by justice and fairness with love and faithfulness leading the way.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 24:1, Psalms 24:2, Psalms 50:12, Psalms 115:16, Genesis 1:1, Genesis 2:1, 1 Chronicles 29:11, Job 41:11, 1 Corinthians 10:26, 1 Corinthians 10:28

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 33:16 - the earth Job 38:18 - General Psalms 119:90 - thou hast Isaiah 40:26 - by the greatness

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The heavens are thine,.... They are made and inhabited by him, they are the work of his hands, and the seat of his majesty, and the throne of his glory; the angels of heaven are his, his creatures and servants; the several heavens are his, the airy, starry, and third heavens; the place and state of the blessed and glorified saints is of his preparing and giving:

the earth also is thine; the whole terraqueous globe, and all that is in it, being made, preserved, and continued by him, and by him given to the sons of men, Psalms 116:15,

as for the world, and the fulness thereof: the habitable world, and all that dwell therein, all the children of men, the beasts of the field, and cattle on a thousand hills, and the provisions for them all; which is the goodness of the Lord, the earth is full of; these are all the Lord's; see Psalms 24:1,

thou hast founded them; the world, and the inhabitants of it; the earth is founded upon the seas, and the world upon nothing; and the inhabitants are wonderfully preserved and continued by the power and providence of God; see Psalms 24:2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The heavens are thine - Are thy work; and, therefore, thy property - the highest conception of property being that which is derived from creation. It is also implied here that as all things belong to God, he has a right to dispose of them as he pleases.

The earth also is thine - The earth itself, as made by thee; all that the earth produces, as having sprung out of that which thou hast made. The entire proprietorship is in thee.

As for the world - In the use of this word, the earth is spoken of as inhabitable, meaning that the earth and all that dwell upon it belong to God.

And the fulness thereof - All that it produces; what constitutes its enireness. That is, the earth itself considered as earth, or as a mass of matter; and all that springs from it; all that constitutes the earth, with all its mountains, seas, rivers, people, animals, minerals, harvests, cities, towns, monuments - the productions of nature, the works of power, and the achievements of art. Compare the notes at Psalms 24:1.

Thou hast founded them - They all have their foundation in thee; that is, thou hast caused them all to exist. They have no independent and separate basis on which to rest.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 89:11. The heavens are thine — Thou art the Governor of all things, and the Disposer of all events.

The world — The terraqueous globe.

And the fullness — All the generations of men. Thou hast founded them-thou hast made them, and dost sustain them.

After this verse, the Editio Princeps of the Hebrew Bible, printed at Soncini, 1488, adds: -

לילה לך אף יום לך lailah lecha aph yom lecha

ושמש מאור הכינות אתה vashamesh maor hachinotha attah

To thee is the day; also to thee is the night:

Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.


But these same words are found in Psalms 74:16.


 
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