Psalms 24:2
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Psalms 24:2 in other translations
| BSB | For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters. |
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| WEB | For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods. |
| ASV | For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods. |
| YLT | For He on the seas hath founded it, And on the floods He doth establish it. |
| DARBY | For it was he that founded it upon seas, and established it upon floods. |
| BBE | For by him it was based on the seas, and made strong on the deep rivers. |
| Webster | For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. |
What does Psalms 24:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 24:1-6
We ourselves are not our own; our bodies, our souls, are not. Even those of the children of men are God's, who know him not, nor own their relation to him. A soul that knows and considers its own nature, and that it must live for ever, when it has viewed the earth and the fulness thereof, will sit down unsatisfied. It will think of ascending toward God, and will ask, What shall I do, that I may abide in that happy…
Psalms 24:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 24:2
- Jeremiah 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
- Psalms 136:6
To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- Genesis 1:9-10
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
- Psalms 104:5-6
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
- Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
- Psalms 33:6
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
- Jeremiah 10:11-16
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. …
- Job 38:8-11
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
- Psalms 96:10
Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
- 2 Peter 3:5-7
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
- Genesis 8:22
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- Psalms 95:4
In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
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Context
- Psalms 24:1
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
- Psalms 24:2
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
- Psalms 24:3
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
Psalms 24:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque él la fundó sobre los mares, y afirmóla sobre los ríos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car lui l’a fondée sur les mers, et l’a établie sur les fleuves. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn er, er hat sie gegründet über Meeren, und über Strömen sie festgestellt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Deus meus, in te confido; non erubescam. |