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12If I were hungry{H8799)}, I would not tell{H8799)} thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
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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:
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. …
For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. …
Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-15)God is here dealing with those that placed all their religion in the observances of the ceremonial law, and thought those sufficient. I. He lays down the original contract between him and Israel, in which they had avouched him to be their God, and he them to be his people, and so both parties were agreed (Ps. 50:7): Hear, O my people! and I will speak . Note, It is justly expected that whatever ot…
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