“The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.”
All creation belongs to God: "The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it—you have founded them." The comprehensive statement of divine ownership establishes that creation itself belongs to God. This universal dominion supports the conviction that God can fulfill particular covenantal promises.
Church Fathers on Psalms 89:11
1. Understand, beloved, this Psalm, which I am about to explain, by the grace of God, of our hope in the Lord Jesus Christ, and be of good cheer, because He who promised, will fulfil all, as He has fulfilled much: for it is not our own merit, but His mercy, that gives us confidence in Him. He Himself is meant, in my belief, by “the understanding of Æthan the Israelite:” which has given this Psalm its title. You see then, who is meant by Æthan: but the meaning of the word is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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