Psalm 24:2
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New International Version (©2011)
for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters.

New Living Translation (©2007)
For he laid the earth's foundation on the seas and built it on the ocean depths.

English Standard Version (©2001)
for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For He has founded it upon the seas And established it upon the rivers.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
for He laid its foundation on the seas and established it on the rivers.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Indeed, he founded it upon the seas, he established it upon deep waters.

NET Bible (©2006)
For he set its foundation upon the seas, and established it upon the ocean currents.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
For he set its foundations in the sea and it was prepared in the rivers.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He laid its foundation on the seas and set it firmly on the rivers.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

American King James Version
For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

American Standard Version
For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers.

Darby Bible Translation
For it was he that founded it upon seas, and established it upon floods.

English Revised Version
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

Webster's Bible Translation
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

World English Bible
For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

Young's Literal Translation
For He on the seas hath founded it, And on the floods He doth establish it.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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, holy place, where he makes his people holy and happy? We make nothing of religion, if we do not make heart-work of it. We can only be cleansed from our sins, and renewed unto holiness, by the blood of Christ and the washing of the Holy Ghost. Thus we become his people; thus we receive blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of our salvation. God's peculiar people shall be made truly and for ever happy. Where God gives righteousness, he designs salvation. Those that are made meet for heaven, shall be brought safe to heaven, and will find what they have been seeking.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods (comp. Genesis 1:9). God has established the earth above the seas and floods, causing it to "appear," and thus making it a fitting habitation for man. Hence his right of property in the earth and in all the dwellers on it. They exist through his providential care (comp. Psalm 104:6-9).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For he hath founded it upon the seas,.... Or "with" them, as some interpret (e) the particle he hath founded the earth and seas together, and both upon nothing; and yet are stable and firm; or "by the seas" (f), near unto them, at the side of them; which, though higher than the earth, are wonderfully bounded by the power of God, so as not to return and cover the earth; see Job 38:8; so the particle is used in Psalm 1:3. Some have thought that the first earth, which Peter says was standing in the water, and out of the water, 2 Peter 3:5, was made in the form of an egg, and that the waters were under the earth, and the earth was as a crust or shell over them, until the deluge came; and this crust then broke in, and formed the sea; and so it was literally true, that the earth was founded upon, or over the waters;

and established it upon the floods; the floods of the seas, or rivers of water running to and fro in it: this shows the ground and foundation of Christ's right and claim to the earth, and all that is in it; which is not by reason of his father's gift to him as Mediator, but by virtue of his concern in creation, the world, and all things in it, being made and established by him; in him do all things consist, Colossians 1:16.

(e) R. Moses in Aben Ezra in loc. (f) "juxta maria", Vatablus, Gejerus, Amama; so Kimchi & Ben Melech.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. Poetically represents the facts of Ge 1:9.

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The Earth is the Lord's
1The earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 2For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods. 3Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? …

2 Peter 3:5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water.
Genesis 1:9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so.
Psalm 104:3 and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind.
Psalm 104:5 He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.
Psalm 136:6 who spread out the earth upon the waters, His love endures forever.
Proverbs 30:4 Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Whose hands have gathered up the wind? Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is the name of his son? Surely you know!
Isaiah 42:5 This is what God the LORD says-- the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it: