Psalm 115:16 “The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to…”

Psalm 115:16

The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

World English Bible

The heavens are the LORD’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men.

American Standard Version

The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah; But the earth hath he given to the children of men.

Geneva Bible 1599

The heauens, euen the heauens are the Lordes: but he hath giuen the earth to the sonnes of men.

Darby Translation

The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah, but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

Young's Literal Translation

The heavens — the heavens [are] Jehovah's, And the earth He hath given to sons of men,

Bible in Basic English

The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.

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Cross references

“heaven”

Psalm 89:11 Psalm 144:5 Isaiah 66:1 Psalm 148:4 Lamentations 3:66 John 14:2

Psalm 89:11 · BSB

The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.

Psalm 144:5 · BSB

Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

Isaiah 66:1 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?

Psalm 148:4 · BSB

Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies.

Lamentations 3:66 · BSB

You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.

John 14:2 · BSB

In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?

“but the earth”

Genesis 1:28–30 Genesis 9:1–3 Deuteronomy 32:8 Jeremiah 27:5 Jeremiah 27:6

Genesis 1:28–30 · BSB

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

Genesis 9:1–3 · BSB

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:8 · BSB

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

Jeremiah 27:5 · BSB

By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.

Jeremiah 27:6 · BSB

So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.

Also

Psalm 8:6

Psalm 8:6 · BSB

You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15May you be blessed by the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

17It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.

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