The affirmation 'Your years are throughout all generations; of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands' returns to the contrast between divine eternality and human transience, now explicitly invoking creation theology. The phrase 'throughout all generations' emphasizes that God's duration transcends not just one human lifespan but the entire succession of generations, an infinity of human time-spans. The invocation of creation—God laying the foundation of the earth and forming the heavens—situates God's eternality in the most cosmic act, the origination of all that exists. The language echoes Psalm 8 and invokes the creation account to ground assurance in the fundamental stability of the universe. By appealing to creation, the psalm suggests that the speaker's survival and the cosmic order are bound together; to doubt God's capacity to sustain one is to doubt God's power over creation. This verse transforms the small life into a microcosm of creation, equally dependent on divine will and word.

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