Psalm 115:16
The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.
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heaven

Psalm 89:11
The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The world and its fullness You founded.

Psalm 144:5
Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

Psalm 148:4
Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies.

Isaiah 66:1
This is what the LORD says: "Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will be My place of repose?

Lamentations 3:66
You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under the heavens of the LORD.

John 14:2
In My Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?

but the earth

Genesis 1:28-30
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth." . . .

Genesis 9:1-3
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

Jeremiah 27:5, 6
By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please. . . .

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
The heavens are the heavens of the LORD, But the earth He has given to the sons of men.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The heavens are the LORD's, but the earth He has given to the human race.

International Standard Version
The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but he gave the earth to human beings.

NET Bible
The heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The Heaven of Heavens is Lord Jehovah's and the Earth he has given to the children of men.
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