14Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
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Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-22)Here is a most pathetic exhortation to obedience, inferred from the premises, and urged with very powerful arguments and a great deal of persuasive rhetoric. Moses brings it in like an orator, with an appeal to his auditors And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee ? Deut. 10:12. Ask what he requires; as David (Ps. 116:12), What shall I render ? When we have received mercy from G…
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