"Another interpretation of 'The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it' is a parable of a king who had a son in a city, and the people of the city honored him by saying that he was the king's son, and the king honored him as well. Eventually, the king sold his city to another. The criminals began to commit offenses against the king's son. He went to the king for help.

After some time, the king returned to his city, and his son was honored as the king's son again. He told them, 'Now I am his son.' The king in this parable is God, and the city is his land. The son is David.

All the days that the land belonged to God, they honored David because he went out and came before them. But what did God do? He sold his land, as it says in Ezekiel 30:12, 'And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked.' The criminals began to commit offenses against the king's son, as it says in 1 Kings 12:16, 'And the people returned the word to the king, saying, "What share have we in David?"'

But when God buys back his land for his son, they will return to God and seek their king David, as it says in Hosea 3:5, 'Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek the Lord their God and David their king.' Therefore it is said, 'The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it.' Another interpretation is that there is a man who has a ship, but the cargo inside it is not his. If the cargo is his, the ship is not his.

But God is not like this; the earth and everything in it belong to him." Another thing, you have a person who has a ship, but the cargo inside it does not belong to him. And if the cargo belongs to him, the ship does not. But the Holy One, blessed be He, does indeed own the earth and all its fullness.

Flesh and blood build a house fifty cubits wide, but when it is large, one hundred cubits, it is like three cubits. But the Holy One, blessed be He, did not create the earth and then fill it; rather, He filled it as it was created. As it says, "The whole earth is full of His glory" (Isaiah 6:3). Our sages taught that Rabbi Eliezer says, "Every section that David said about himself, he said on behalf of all Israel.

The statement in the singular was said on his own behalf, and the statement in the plural was said on behalf of all Israel." And wherever it says "For the conductor, with instruments," it refers only to the future. And wherever it says "A psalm of David," he would play first, and then the Holy Spirit would rest upon him. Regarding David, a skillful musician, by means of a translator.

And the Divine Presence does not rest because of sadness, laziness, foolishness, or trivial matters. Rather, it rests because of joy, as it says, "Now bring me a musician," and when the musician played, the Lord's hand came upon him (2 Kings 3:15).