Psalm - 97:9



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

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Explanation and meaning of Psalm 97:9.

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For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth: thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods.
For Thou, Jehovah, art Most High over all the earth, Greatly Thou hast been exalted over all gods.
For you, Lord, are most high over the earth; you are lifted up over all other gods.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

For thou, Jehovah, art high above all the earth Having already, in another place, explained these words, I shall not say more at present upon them. Only it is to be noticed, that there is a comparison drawn between God and the angels, and whatever has any claim to eminence. The Psalmist limits all other excellency in such a manner, as to leave no room for questioning that all majesty is comprehended in God only. This was the case more eminently when God manifested himself in his only-begotten Son, who is the express image of himself. Before that period his greatness was less apparent, because he was less known.

For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth - See the notes at Psalm 83:18.
Thou art exalted far above all gods - See the notes at Psalm 95:3.

For thou, Lord, art high - Thou art infinitely exalted above men and angels.

For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth,.... Above all the inhabitants of the earth, as the Targum; he is highly exalted above every name, men of the greatest name that is named in the world; he is made higher than the heavens, and the inhabitants of it; and has all power in heaven and earth, as Mediator; and, as a divine Person, he is the most high God, as the word "Elion", here used, signifies; and all this lays a foundation for joy and gladness in the saints; even the dignity of Christ's person, and the exaltation of him in the human nature:
thou art exalted far above all gods: not only the fictitious deities of the Gentiles, or the greatest potentates upon earth, being made higher than the kings of the earth, who are called gods; but also than the angels in heaven; he is set down at the right hand of God, where they are not, and never were, nor shall be; angels, authorities, and powers, being subject to him, Hebrews 1:13.

This distichic epiphonema (Psalm 97:9 = Ps 83:19; Psalm 97:9, cf. Psalm 47:3, 10) might close the Psalm; there follows still, however, a hortatory strophe (which was perhaps not added till later on).

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