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The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours; The world and its fullness. You have founded them.
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God's Ownership is Absolute
Commentators stress that because God created everything, He owns everything. Albert Barnes calls this the "highest conception of property." This ownership isn't just a title; it gives God the right to govern the heavens, the earth, and all they contain—from mountains and seas to human achievements. This verse affirms God's total and rightful sovereignty over all He has made.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The heavens are yours - Are your work; and, therefore, your property - the highest conception of property being that which is derived from c…
19th Century
Anglican
Not only is God incomparable in heaven, He is also the only mighty and lofty one in nature or history.
Baptist
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fullness thereof, thou hast founded them. The north and the south thou…
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16th Century
Protestant
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine. He again repeats, for the third time, that the same God who had been the deliverer of the …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The heavens are yours They are made and inhabited by him, they are the work of his hands, and the seat of his majest…
The more God's works are known, the more they are admired. And to praise the Lord, is to acknowledge him to be such that there is none like him.
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