Parallel Verses

King James 2000

For you, LORD, are 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.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

For You, Lord,
are the Most High over all the earth;
You are exalted above 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.

A Conservative Version

For thou, LORD, are most high above all the earth. Thou are exalted far above all gods.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


For You are the Lord Most High over all the earth;
You are exalted far above all gods.

Bible in Basic English

For you, Lord, are most high over the earth; you are lifted up over all other gods.

Darby Translation

For thou, Jehovah, art the Most High above all the earth; thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods.

Julia Smith Translation

For thou, Jehovah, art most high over all the earth: thou wert exalted greatly above all gods.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you, O Yahweh, [are] most high over all the earth. You are highly exalted above all gods.

Modern King James verseion

For You, Jehovah, are high above all the earth; You are lifted on high far above all gods.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For thou, LORD, art higher than all that are in the earth; thou art 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 Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

For, thou, Yahweh, art Most High over all the earth, Greatly hast thou exalted thyself above all gods.

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

For Thou, Jehovah, art Most High over all the earth, Greatly Thou hast been exalted over all gods.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For thou, Lord

Usage: 0

עליון 
'elyown 
Usage: 53

all the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

thou art exalted
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

References

Prayers for Psalm 97:9

Context Readings

Yahweh's Glorious Reign

8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, O LORD. 9 For you, LORD, are high above all the earth: you are exalted far above all gods. 10 You that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Cross References

Psalm 83:18

That men may know that you, whose name alone is the LORD, are the most high over all the earth.

Psalm 95:3

For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing in which they dealt proudly he was above them.

Psalm 96:4

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

Psalm 135:5

For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

Psalm 115:3-8

But our God is in the heavens: he has done whatsoever he has pleased.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.

Jeremiah 10:10

But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to endure his indignation.

Ephesians 1:21

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

Philippians 2:9-11

Therefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

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