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And the heavens are the work of thy hands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/psalms/102.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: end the heavens are the works of thy hands. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/psalms/102.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Of old hast thou founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/psalms/102.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/psalms/102.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/psalms/102.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/psalms/102.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands are the heavens.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/out_of_the_deep/iv_out_of_the_deep.htm">Out of the Deep of Loneliness, Failure, and Disappointment. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass. I am even as a sparrow that sitteth alone on the housetop--Ps. cii. 4, 6. My lovers and friends hast Thou put away from me, and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight--Ps. lxxviii. 18. I looked on my right hand, and saw there was no man that would know me. I had no place to flee unto, and no man cared for my soul. I cried unto Thee, O Lord, and said, Thou art my Hope. When my spirit was in heaviness, then Thou knewest my path.--Ps. cxlii. 4, 5. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/out_of_the_deep/iv_out_of_the_deep.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Kingsley—</span><span class="citation2">Out of the Deep</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kempis/imitation_of_christ/chapter_xvi_that_true_solace.htm">That True Solace is to be Sought in God Alone</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Whatsoever I am able to desire or to think of for my solace, I look for it not here, but hereafter. For if I alone had all the solaces of this world, and were able to enjoy all its delights, it is certain that they could not endure long. Wherefore, O my soul, thou canst be fully comforted and perfectly refreshed, only in God, the Comforter of the poor, and the lifter up of the humble. Wait but a little while, my soul, wait for the Divine promise, and thou shalt have abundance of all good things <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kempis/imitation_of_christ/chapter_xvi_that_true_solace.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas A Kempis—</span><span class="citation2">Imitation of Christ</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kempis/imitation_of_christ/chapter_xii_that_he_who.htm">That He who is About to Communicate with Christ Ought to Prepare Himself with Great Diligence</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The Voice of the Beloved I am the Lover of purity, and Giver of sanctity. I seek a pure heart, and there is the place of My rest. Prepare for Me the larger upper room furnished, and I will keep the Passover at thy house with my disciples.(1) If thou wilt that I come unto thee and abide with thee, purge out the old leaven,(2) and cleanse the habitation of thy heart. Shut out the whole world, and all the throng of sins; sit as a sparrow alone upon the house-top,(3) and think upon thy transgressions <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kempis/imitation_of_christ/chapter_xii_that_he_who.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas A Kempis—</span><span class="citation2">Imitation of Christ</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gaebelein/the_lord_of_glory/the_never_changing_one.htm">The Never Changing One. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"JESUS Christ the same yesterday, and to-day and forever" (Heb. xiii:8). Blessed truth and precious assurance for us poor, weak creatures, yea, among all His creatures the most changing; He changeth not. "For I am the Lord, I change not" (Mal. iii:6). "Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Thy hands. They shall all perish, but Thou shalt endure: yea all of them shall wax old like a garment, as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed; <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gaebelein/the_lord_of_glory/the_never_changing_one.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Arno Gaebelein—</span><span class="citation2">The Lord of Glory</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/4_the_unchangeableness_of_god.htm">The Unchangeableness of God</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The next attribute is God's unchangeableness. I am Jehovah, I change not.' Mal 3:3. I. God is unchangeable in his nature. II. In his decree. I. Unchangeable in his nature. 1. There is no eclipse of his brightness. 2. No period put to his being. [1] No eclipse of his brightness. His essence shines with a fixed lustre. With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.' James 1:17. Thou art the same.' Psa 102:27. All created things are full of vicissitudes. Princes and emperors are subject to <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/4_the_unchangeableness_of_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">A Body of Divinity</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jennings/old_groans_and_new_songs/chapter_xii_our_last_chapter.htm">Our Last ChapterConcluded with the Words, "For Childhood and Youth are Vanity"...</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Our last chapter concluded with the words, "For childhood and youth are vanity": that is, childhood proves the emptiness of all "beneath the sun," as well as old age. The heart of the child has the same needs--the same capacity in kind--as that of the aged. It needs God. Unless it knows Him, and His love is there, it is empty; and, in its fleeting character, childhood proves its vanity. But this makes us quite sure that if childhood can feel the need, then God has, in His wide grace, met the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jennings/old_groans_and_new_songs/chapter_xii_our_last_chapter.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">F. C. Jennings—</span><span class="citation2">Old Groans and New Songs</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/traherne/centuries_of_meditations/notes_on_the_fourth_century.htm">Notes on the Fourth Century</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Page 238. Med. 1. In the wording of this meditation, and of several other passages in the Fourth Century, it seems as though Traherne is speaking not of himself, but of, a friend and teacher of his. He did this, no doubt, in order that he might not lay himself open to the charge of over-egotism. Yet that he is throughout relating his own experiences is proved by the fact that this Meditation, as first written, contains passages which the author afterwards marked for omission. In its original form <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/traherne/centuries_of_meditations/notes_on_the_fourth_century.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Traherne—</span><span class="citation2">Centuries of Meditations</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pohle/grace_actual_and_habitual/section_1_the_nature_of.htm">The Nature of Justification</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Justification in the active sense (iustificatio, {GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA}) is defined by the Tridentine Council as "a translation from that state wherein man is born a child of the first Adam, to the state of grace and of the adoption of the sons of God through the second Adam, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pohle/grace_actual_and_habitual/section_1_the_nature_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Joseph Pohle—</span><span class="citation2">Grace, Actual and Habitual</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/traherne/centuries_of_meditations/notes_on_the_third_century.htm">Notes on the Third Century</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Page 161. Line 1. He must be born again, &c. This is a compound citation from John iii. 3, and Mark x. 15, in the order named. Page 182. Line 17. For all things should work together, &c. See Romans viii. 28. Page 184. Lines 10-11. Being Satan is able, &c. 2 Corinthians xi. 14. Page 184. Last line. Like a sparrow, &c. Psalm cii. Page 187. Line 1. Mechanisms. This word is, in the original MS., mechanicismes.' Page 187. Line 7. Like the King's daughter, &c. Psalm xlv. 14. Page 188. Med. 39. The best <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/traherne/centuries_of_meditations/notes_on_the_third_century.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Traherne—</span><span class="citation2">Centuries of Meditations</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/viii_after_the_scripture.htm">After the Scripture. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God created He him."--Gen. v. 1. In the preceding pages we have shown that the translation, "in Our image," actually means, "after Our image." To make anything in an image is no language; it is unthinkable, logically untrue. We now proceed to show how it should be translated, and give our reason for it. We begin with citing some passages from the Old Testament in which occurs the preposition "B" which, in Gen. i. 27, stands before image, where <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/viii_after_the_scripture.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Abraham Kuyper—</span><span class="citation2">The Work of the Holy Spirit</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_iii/third_sunday_after_trinity_humility.htm">Third Sunday after Trinity Humility, Trust, Watchfulness, Suffering</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Text: 1 Peter 5, 5-11. 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; 7 casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you. 8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 whom withstand stedfast <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_iii/third_sunday_after_trinity_humility.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Martin Luther—</span><span class="citation2">Epistle Sermons, Vol. III</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/102-25.htm">Psalm 102:25 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/psalms/102-25.htm">Psalm 102:25 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/psalms/102-25.htm">Psalm 102:25 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/psalms/102-25.htm">Psalm 102:25 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/psalms/102-25.htm">Psalm 102:25 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/102-25.htm">Psalm 102:25 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/psalms/102-25.htm">Psalm 102:25 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/102-24.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 102:24"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 102:24" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/102-26.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 102:26"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 102:26" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/psalms/102-25.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>