Answer: The Lord owns the earth and everything in it, (verse 26).
MORE INFORMATION AND/OR OTHER SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
Psalm 24:1: "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for He founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters."
Exodus 9:29: "Moses replied, ‘When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the Lord. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the Lord's.'"
Exodus 19:5-6: [God said,] "Now if you obey Me fully and keep My covenant, then out of all nations you will be My treasured possession. Although the whole earth is Mine, you will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation."
Job 41:11: [God said,] "Who has a claim against Me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to Me."
Psalm 50:9-12: [God said,] "I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens, for every animal of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine. If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and all that is in it."
1 Timothy 4:4: "For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving..."
