Psalm 93:1

Foundations, pillars & stability

Psalms (Old Testament) · Hymn / Kingship Psalm

Verse & chapter context

World English Bible (verified corpus)

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What the passage explicitly says

Yahweh reigns; he is clothed with majesty. The world (tebel) is established — it cannot be moved.

What requires interpretation

The Hebrew 'bal-timmot' — 'it will not totter' — is the same phrase applied elsewhere to the righteous person (Ps 15:5; 16:8). Reading it as astrophysics vs. covenant stability is interpretation.

Flat-circle interpretation

The world is a fixed, unmoving realm under God's kingship.

Globe-compatible interpretation

Poetic assurance of God's stabilizing rule; 'cannot be moved' as covenant/kingship metaphor rather than planetary mechanics.

Original-language study

אֶרֶץ
erets · H776
Hebrew

Earth; land; the ground or a defined territory.

Brown–Driver–Briggs (BibleHub reprint)

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Questions for further study

  • How does 'the righteous shall not be moved' inform this?
  • How do Kingship Psalms use creation language?
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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.