Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is this place of my rest?
Ibn Ezra
The prophet, in this chapter, again rebukes the wicked people. The heaven is my throne. We know that the glory of the Lord filleth heaven and earth; but by the words the heaven is my throne the prophet indicates, that the destinies of the whole world come from above, as it were by decrees, which the king, sitting on his throne, sends forth. The earth is my footstool. The earth is in my power, is mine. Since all is mine, Where is a house, etc., and where is a place, etc. Repetition of the same idea.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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