Psalm - 92:8

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8 But you, Yahweh, are on high forevermore.

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Explanation and meaning of Psalm 92:8.

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But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
But thou, O Jehovah, art on high for evermore.
And Thou art high to the age, O Jehovah.
But you, LORD, are most high for ever more.
When the wicked spring up as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they may be destroyed for ever.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore - In the treatment of the righteous and the wicked, thou wilt maintain thine own exalted place as a sovereign. Whatever may occur to people, God will maintain this exalted position as supreme over all.

High for evermore - They are brought down and destroyed; but the Lord is exalted eternally, both for his judgments and his mercies.

But thou, LORD, [art (f) most] high for evermore.
(f) Your judgments are most constant against the wicked and pass our reach.

But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore,.... God is "the most High"; that is one of his names; he is above all, is higher than the highest; and he dwells on high, and looks down upon the inhabitants of the earth, and sees what is doing among them; and to him they will be accountable another day for what they do; and when wicked, men perish, being destroyed, he will continue for ever in all his greatness, glory, and majesty; for there seems to be an antithesis in this verse to the former, or between wicked men and the Lord; and besides he endures for ever to inflict punishment upon them; and therefore it is that they shall be destroyed for ever.

This he does in part, by contrasting their ruin with God's exaltation and eternity.
most high--as occupying the highest place in heaven (Psalm 7:7; Psalm 18:16).

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