Psalms 24:1
A Psalm of David. To Jehovah [is] the earth and its fulness, The world and the inhabitants in it.
Young's Literal Translation
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 on the seas hath founded it, And on the floods He doth establish it.
Cross References
Exodus 9:29And Moses saith unto him, 'At my going out of the city, I spread my palms unto Jehovah — the voices cease, and the hail is not any more, so that thou knowest that the earth [is] Jehovah's;
Deuteronomy 10:14'Lo, to Jehovah thy God [are] the heavens and the heavens of the heavens, the earth and all that [is] in it;
1 Chronicles 29:16'O Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build to Thee a house, for Thy holy name, [is] out of Thy hand, and of Thee [is] the whole.
Job 34:13Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?
Job 41:11Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it [is] mine.
Psalms 50:12If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.
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 →