Psalm 97:9
New International Version
For you, LORD, are the Most High over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.

New Living Translation
For you, O LORD, are supreme over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.

English Standard Version
For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.

Berean Standard Bible
For You, O LORD, are Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.

King James Bible
For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.

New King James Version
For You, LORD, are most high above all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.

New American Standard Bible
For You are the LORD Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.

NASB 1995
For You are the LORD Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.

NASB 1977
For Thou art the LORD Most High over all the earth; Thou art exalted far above all gods.

Legacy Standard Bible
For You are Yahweh Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.

Amplified Bible
For You are the LORD Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.

Christian Standard Bible
For you, LORD, are the Most High over the whole earth; you are exalted above all the gods.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For You, LORD, are the Most High over all the earth; You are exalted above all the gods.

American Standard Version
For thou, Jehovah, art most high above all the earth: Thou art exalted far above all gods.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because you are LORD JEHOVAH, The Highest over all the Earth and you are greatly exalted over all gods!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For thou art Lord most high over all the earth; thou art greatly exalted above all gods.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD rules the whole earth, and he is more glorious than all the false gods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth: thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods.

English Revised Version
For thou, LORD, art most high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You, O LORD, the Most High, are above the whole earth. You are highest. You are above all the gods.

Good News Translation
LORD Almighty, you are ruler of all the earth; you are much greater than all the gods.

International Standard Version
For you, LORD, are the Most High above all the earth; you are exalted high above all divine beings.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For Thou, LORD, art most high above all the earth; Thou art exalted far above all gods.

Literal Standard Version
For You, YHWH, [are] Most High over all the earth, | You have been exalted greatly over all gods.

Majority Standard Bible
For You, O LORD, are Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.

New American Bible
For you, LORD, are the Most High over all the earth, exalted far above all gods.

NET Bible
For you, O LORD, are the sovereign king over the whole earth; you are elevated high above all gods.

New Revised Standard Version
For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.

New Heart English Bible
For you, LORD, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.

World English Bible
For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.

Young's Literal Translation
For Thou, Jehovah, art Most High over all the earth, Greatly Thou hast been exalted over all gods.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Let the Earth Rejoice
8Zion hears and rejoices, and the towns of Judah exult because of Your judgments, O LORD. 9For You, O LORD, are Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods. 10Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.…

Cross References
Exodus 18:11
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance."

Psalm 47:9
The nobles of the nations have assembled as the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.

Psalm 83:18
May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.

Psalm 95:3
For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.

Psalm 96:4
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.

Psalm 99:2
Great is the LORD in Zion; He is exalted above all the peoples.

Psalm 113:4
The LORD is exalted over all the nations, His glory above the heavens.


Treasury of Scripture

For you, LORD, are high above all the earth: you are exalted far above all gods.

high

Psalm 83:18
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

Ephesians 1:21
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

Philippians 2:9-11
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: …

far

Psalm 95:3
For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

Psalm 96:4
For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

Psalm 115:3-8
But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased…

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Psalm 97
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7. The church rejoices at God's judgments upon idolaters
10. An exhortation to godliness and gladness














(9) For the first clause see Psalm 83:18; for the second Psalm 47:2-9.

Verse 9. - For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth; rather, art the Most High (eliun) above all the earth (see the Revised Version). Thou art exalted far above all gods (comp. ver. 7, and see also Psalm 83:18). No comparison can be made between Jehovah and the heathen gods. He is "exalted" far, far above them.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

You,
אַתָּ֤ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

O LORD,
יְהוָ֗ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

are Most High
עֶלְי֥וֹן (‘el·yō·wn)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 5945: An elevation, lofty, as title, the Supreme

over
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the earth;
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

You are exalted
נַ֝עֲלֵ֗יתָ (na·‘ă·lê·ṯā)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

far
מְאֹ֥ד (mə·’ōḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 3966: Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily

above
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

gods.
אֱלֹהִֽים׃ (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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