Psalm 75:3

Foundations, pillars & stability

Psalms (Old Testament) · Prophetic psalm

Verse & chapter context

World English Bible (verified corpus)

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What the passage explicitly says

The earth and all its inhabitants quake; God says he holds its pillars firm.

What requires interpretation

The pillars are named; whether they are literal columns or metaphor for divine sustenance is interpretation.

Flat-circle interpretation

Pillars of a physically-supported earth held steady by God.

Globe-compatible interpretation

Poetic metaphor of divine sustaining; parallels ANE imagery without endorsing its physics.

Original-language study

עַמּוּד
ammud · H5982
Hebrew

Pillar; column; support.

Brown–Driver–Briggs (BibleHub reprint)

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Questions for further study

  • How does this verse function in the psalm's judgment scene?
  • What are the 'pillars' in ANE imagination?
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Personal notes

Scripture text: World English Bible (public domain) — Heavens Declare verified corpus. Every verse on this page is rendered from the verified corpus already ingested into Heavens Declare — not from the discovery article.

Verse discovery: BibleStudyTools — Bible Verses About Flat Earth Secondary topical-index reference used only to seed the verse list. Not the source of Scripture text or lexical claims. Retrieved 2026-07-26.