Psalms 115:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

Psalms 115:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 8:6
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Psalms 89:11
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
Genesis 1:28-30
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. …
Jeremiah 27:5-6
I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. …
Genesis 9:1-3
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-18)

In these verses, I. We are earnestly exhorted, all of us, to repose our confidence in God, and not suffer our confidence in him to be shaken by the heathens’ insulting over us upon the account of our present distresses. It is folly to trust in dead images, but it is wisdom to trust in the living God, for he is a help and a shield to those that do trust in them, a help to furnish them with and forw…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

15-17. They were not only God’s peculiar people, but as living inhabitants of earth, assigned the work of His praise as monuments of divine power, wisdom, and goodness.