Psalms 104:5

World English Bible

He laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved forever.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
You placed the world on its foundation so it would never be moved.

English Revised Version
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved for ever.

Update Bible Version
Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved forever.

New Century Version
You built the earth on its foundations so it can never be moved.

New English Translation
He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be upended.

Webster's Bible Translation
[Who] laid the foundations of the earth, [that] it should not be removed for ever.

Amplified Bible
He established the earth on its foundations, So that it will not be moved forever and ever.

English Standard Version
He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Which hast foundid the erthe on his stablenesse; it schal not be bowid in to the world of world.

Berean Standard Bible
He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.

Contemporary English Version
You built foundations for the earth, and it will never be shaken.

American Standard Version
Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever.

Bible in Basic English
He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;

Complete Jewish Bible
You fixed the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.

Darby Translation
He laid the earth upon its foundations: it shall not be removed for ever.

Easy-to-Read Version
You built the earth on its foundations, so it can never be moved.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who didst establish the earth upon its foundations, that it should not be moved for ever and ever;

King James Version (1611)
Who laid the foundations of the earth: that it should not be remoued for euer.

New Life Bible
He set the earth in its place so that it will stay that way forever.

New Revised Standard
You set the earth on its foundations, so that it shall never be shaken.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He set the earth vpon her foundations, so that it shall neuer moue.

George Lamsa Translation
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

Good News Translation
You have set the earth firmly on its foundations, and it will never be moved.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He hath fixed the earth on its foundations, It is not to be shaken, to times age-abiding and beyond.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(103-5) Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever.

Revised Standard Version
Thou didst set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be shaken.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He hath layde the earth sure vpon her foundations: that it can neuer moue at any tyme.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Who establishes the earth on her sure foundation: it shall not be moved for ever.

Christian Standard Bible®
He established the earth on its foundations;it will never be shaken.

Hebrew Names Version
He laid the foundations of the eretz, That it should not be moved forever.

King James Version
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

Lexham English Bible
He established the earth on her foundations, so that it will not be moved forever and ever.

Literal Translation
He founded the earth on its foundations; it shall not be shaken forever and ever.

Young's Literal Translation
He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou hast layed ye earth vpon hir foundacion, that it neuer moueth at eny tyme.

New American Standard Bible
He established the earth upon its foundations, So that it will not totter forever and ever.

New King James Version
You who laid the foundations of the earth, So that it should not be moved forever,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He established the earth upon its foundations, So that it will not totter forever and ever.

Legacy Standard Bible
He founded the earth upon its place,So that it will not shake forever and ever.

Contextual Overview

¹ Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. ² He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain. ³ He lays the beams of his chambers in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind. ⁴ He makes his messengers winds; His servants flames of fire. ⁵ He laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved forever. ⁶ You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains. ⁷ At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away. ⁸ The mountains rose, The valleys sank down, To the place which you had assigned to them. ⁹ You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; That they don't turn again to cover the earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Who laid the foundations of the earth: Heb. He hath founded the earth upon her bases, Psalms 24:2, Psalms 33:9, Psalms 136:6, Job 26:7, Job 38:4-7

that it: Psalms 93:1, Psalms 96:10, Ecclesiastes 1:4, 2 Peter 3:10, Revelation 6:14, Revelation 20:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:9 - General 1 Samuel 2:8 - the pillars Job 36:30 - and Job 38:6 - Whereupon Psalms 18:15 - foundations Psalms 66:6 - He turned Psalms 78:69 - earth Psalms 119:90 - thou hast Micah 6:2 - foundations Romans 1:20 - from the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who laid the foundations of the earth,.... Or "founded the earth upon its bases" l; which some take to be the waters, according to Psalms 24:2, others the centre of gravity in it; others the mountains; others the circumambient air, by which it is poised; rather the almighty power of God, by which it subsists; this is the work of Christ the Almighty; see Hebrews 1:3.

That it should not be removed for ever: for though it may be shaken by earthquakes, yet not removed; nor will it be until the dissolution of all things, when it shall flee away before the face of the Judge, and a new earth shall succeed, Revelation 20:11.

l על מכוניה "super bases ejus", Montanus, Musculus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator so the Tigurine version, Gejerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who laid the foundations of the earth - Referring still to the creation of the earth. The margin is, “He hath founded the earth upon her bases.” The Hebrew word rendered in the margin “her bases” means properly a place; then a basis or foundation. The idea is, that there wes something, as it were, placed under the earth to support it. The idea is not uncommon in the Scriptures. Compare the notes at Job 38:4.

That it should not be removed for ever - So that it cannot be shaken out of its place. That is, It is fixed, permanent, solid. Its foundations do not give way, as edifices reared by man. but it abides the same from age to age - the most fixed and stable object of which we have any knowledge. Compare the notes at Psalms 78:69.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 104:5. יסד ארץ על מכוניה yasad erets al mechonepha,

בל תמוט עולם ועד bal tammot olam vaed.

"Laying the earth upon its foundations,

That it should not be shaken for evermore."

This image Bishop Lowth thinks evidently taken from the tabernacle, which was so laid upon its foundations that nothing could move it, and the dispensation to which it was attached, till the end purposed by the secret counsel of God was accomplished: and thus the earth is established, till the end of its creation shall be fully answered; and then it and its works shall be burnt up. On the above ground, the stability of the sanctuary and the stability of the earth are sometimes mentioned in the same words.