Psalms 115:16

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Psalms 115:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.

15 May you be blessed by the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

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

17 It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.

18 But it is we who will bless the LORD, both now and forevermore. Hallelujah!

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 89:11

The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.

Psalms 144:5

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

Psalms 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 My place of repose be?

Lamentations 3:66

You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O 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?

Genesis 1:28

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 1:29

Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.

Genesis 1:30

And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Genesis 9:1

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:2

The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.

Genesis 9:3

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

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

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.

Jeremiah 27:6

So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.