Berean BlueOpen the app

Scripture · Old Testament

Psalms 136:6

Psalms 136:6 is verse 6 of Psalms chapter 136, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

He spread out the earth upon the waters. His loving devotion endures forever.

BSB source and public domain terms

King James Version

To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.

World English Bible

to him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his loving kindness endures forever;

Read in context

Psalms 136:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 He alone does great wonders. His loving devotion endures forever.

5 By His insight He made the heavens. His loving devotion endures forever.

6 He spread out the earth upon the waters. His loving devotion endures forever.

7 He made the great lights— His loving devotion endures forever.

8 the sun to rule the day, His loving devotion endures forever.

Read all of Psalms 136

Hebrew words

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study Psalms 136:6

Read the commentary on Psalms 136

Cross-references

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

Psalms 24:2

For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

Psalms 104:2

He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

Psalms 104:3

laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

Genesis 1:9

And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.

Job 26:7

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

Job 37:18

can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?

Isaiah 40:22

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Isaiah 44:24

Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

Jeremiah 10:12

The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

Zechariah 12:1

This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:

2 Peter 3:5

But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

2 Peter 3:6

through which the world of that time perished in the flood.

2 Peter 3:7

And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Open in Berean Blue