# General Information:

This quotation comes from another Psalm.

# Connecting Statement:

The author continues explaining that Jesus is superior to the angels.

# In the beginning

"Before anything existed"

# you laid the earth's foundation

The author speaks of God creating the earth as if he built a building on a foundation. Alternate translation: "you created the earth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])

# The heavens are the work of your hands

Here "hands" refer to God's power and action. Alternate translation: "You made the heavens" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])

