Psalm 102:25 {101:26}
Good News Translation
long ago you created the earth, and with your own hands you made the heavens.

New Revised Standard Version
Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

Contemporary English Version
In the beginning, LORD, you laid the earth's foundation and created the heavens.

New American Bible
Of old you laid the earth’s foundations; the heavens are the work of your hands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.

Genesis 2:1 So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them.

Exodus 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.

Job 38:4-7 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding. . . .

Proverbs 8:23 The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out.

Jeremiah 32:17 Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, behold thou hast made heaven and earth by thy great power, and thy stretched out arm: no word shall be hard to thee:

Hebrews 1:10-12 And: Thou in the beginning, O Lord, didst found the earth: and the works of thy hands are the heavens. . . .

Hebrews 3:3,4 For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much as he that hath built the house hath greater honour than the house. . . .

Context
The Prayer of the Afflicted
24Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation. 25In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.26They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed.…
Cross References
Hebrews 1:10
And: Thou in the beginning, O Lord, didst found the earth: and the works of thy hands are the heavens.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.

1 Chronicles 16:26
For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

2 Chronicles 2:12
And he added, saying: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who hath given to king David a wise and knowing son, endued with understanding and prudence, to build a house to the Lord, and a palace for himself.

Nehemiah 9:6
Thou thyself, O Lord alone, thou hast made heaven, and the heaven of heavens, and all the host thereof: the earth and all things that are in it: the seas and all that are therein: and thou givest life to all these things, and the host of heaven adoreth thee.

Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

Psalm 96:5
For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.

Psalm 115:15
Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 40:12
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and weighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers the bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Isaiah 42:5
Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon.

Isaiah 48:13
My hand also hath founded the earth, and my right hand hath measured the heavens: I shall call them, and they shall stand together.

Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish like smoke, and the earth shall be worn away like a garment, and the inhabitants thereof shall perish in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice shall not fail.

Jeremiah 32:17
Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, behold thou hast made heaven and earth by thy great power, and thy stretched out arm: no word shall be hard to thee:

Lamentations 5:19
But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.

Micah 5:2
Now shalt thou be laid waste, O daughter of the robber: they have laid siege against us, with a rod shall they strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

Zechariah 12:1
The burden of the word of the Lord upon Israel. Thus saith the Lord, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundations of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man in him:

Psalm 102:24
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