Psalm 136:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

who spread out the earth on the waters, for his steadfast love endures forever;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

To Him Who stretched out the earth upon the waters, for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever;

American Standard Version (1901)

To him that spread forth the earth above the waters; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever:

Common English Bible

Give thanks to the one who shaped the earth on the water— God’s faithful love lasts forever.

Catholic Public Domain Version

May my tongue adhere to my jaws, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem first, as the beginning of my joy.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.

Psalm 136:6 Cross References

Genesis 1:9

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

Job 26:7

He stretches out Zaphon over the void and hangs the earth upon nothing.

Job 37:18

Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?

Psalm 24:2

for he has founded it on the seas and established it on the rivers.

Isaiah 40:22

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them like a tent to live in,

Isaiah 42:5

Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:

Isaiah 44:24

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by myself spread out the earth;

Jeremiah 10:12

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

Zechariah 12:1

An Oracle. The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within: