Psalms 88:12
Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tui sunt cæli, et tua est terra : orbem terræ, et plenitudinem ejus tu fundasti ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- σοί εἰσιν οἱ οὐρανοί, καὶ σή ἐστιν ἡ γῆ· τὴν οἰκουμένην καὶ τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτῆς σὺ ἐθεμελίωσας.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 89:12
- לְךָ֣ שָׁ֭מַיִם אַף לְךָ֥ אָ֑רֶץ תֵּבֵ֥ל וּ֝מְלֹאָ֗הּ אַתָּ֥ה יְסַדְתָּֽם
The Fathers on this verse
St Irenaeus Against Heresies: Book V, Chapter XXI. Christ is the head of
2. Now the Lord would not have recapitulated in Himself that ancient and primary enmity against the serpent, fulfilling the promise of the Creator ( Demiurgi ), and performing His command, if He had come from another Father. But as He is one and the same, who formed us at the beginning, and sent His Son at the end, the Lord did perform His command, being made of a woman, by both destroying our adversary, and perfecting man after the image and likeness of God. And for this reason He did not draw the means of confounding him from any other source than from the words of the law, and made use of the Father’s commandment as a help towards the destruction and confusion of the apostate angel. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXXIX
12. “The heavens are thine, the earth also is Thine” ( ver. 11 ). From Thee, over Thy earth they rain. Thine are the heavens, by whom is preached Thy truth in circuit of Thee; “Thine is the earth,” which has received Thy truth in circuit of Thee; and what has resulted from that rain? “Thou hast laid the foundation of the round world, and all that therein is.” “Thou hast created the north and the seas” ( ver. 12 ). For nothing has any power against Thee, against its Creator. The world indeed may rage through its own malice, and the perversity of its will; does it nevertheless pass over the bound laid down by the Creator, who made all things? Why then do I fear the north wind? Why do I fear the seas? In the north indeed is the devil, who said, “I will sit in the sides of the north; I will be like the Most High;” but Thou hast humbled, as one wounded, the proud one. …