Psalms 24:2
For He on the seas hath founded it, And on the floods He doth establish it.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
In Context
1A Psalm of David. To Jehovah [is] the earth and its fulness, The world and the inhabitants in it.
3Who goeth up into the hill of Jehovah? And who riseth up in His holy place?
Cross References
Genesis 1:9And God saith, 'Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.
Job 38:4Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.
Psalms 33:6By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.
Psalms 93:1Jehovah hath reigned, Excellency He hath put on, Jehovah put on strength, He girded Himself, Also — established is the world, unmoved.
Psalms 96:10Say among nations, 'Jehovah hath reigned, Also — established is the world, unmoved, He judgeth the peoples in uprightness.'
Psalms 136:6To Him spreading the earth over the waters, For to the age [is] His kindness.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 24:2-3
God's Absolute Propriety. 1 The earth is the Lord 's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Here is, I. God's absolute propriety in this part of the creation where our lot is cast, v. 1 . We are not to think that the heavens, even the heavens only, are the Lord's, and the numerous and bright inhabitants of the upper world, and that this earth, being so small and inconsiderable a part of the creation, and at such… Read the whole commentary →