Psalms 24:1
A PSALM OF DAVID. To YHWH [is] the earth and its fullness, || The world and the inhabitants in it.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
In Context
2For He has founded it on the seas, || And He establishes it on the floods.
Cross References
Exodus 9:29And Moses says to him, “At my going out of the city, I spread my palms to YHWH—the voices cease, and there is no more hail, so that you know that the earth [is] YHWH’s;
Deuteronomy 10:14Behold, the heavens, even the heavens of the heavens, [belong] to your God YHWH, [as does] the earth and all that [is] in it.
1 Chronicles 29:16O our God YHWH, all this store [with] which we have prepared to build a house for You, for Your Holy Name, [is] out of Your [own] hand, and the whole [is] of You.
Job 34:13Who has inspected for Himself the earth? And who has placed all the habitable world?
Job 41:11Who has brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it [is] Mine.
Psalms 50:12If I am hungry I do not tell [it] to you, || For the world and its fullness [is] Mine.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 24:1
This psalm is concerning the kingdom of Jesus Christ, I. His providential kingdom, by which he rules the world, ver. 1, 2 . II. The kingdom of his grace, by which he rules in his church. 1. Concerning the subjects of that kingdom; their character ( ver. 4 , 6 ), their charter, ver. 5 . 2. Concerning the King of that kingdom; and a summons to all to give him admission, ver. 7-10 . It is supposed that the psalm was penned upon occasion of David's bringing up the ark to the place prepared for it, and that the… Read the whole commentary →