Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For thou, LORD, art higher than all that are in the earth; thou art 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.

King James 2000

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

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 heareth of it and rejoiceth; yea, and the daughters of Judah are glad because of thy judgments, O LORD. 9 For thou, LORD, art higher than all that are in the earth; thou art exalted far above all gods. 10 O ye that love the LORD, see that ye hate the thing which is evil. The LORD preserveth the souls of his saints; he shall deliver them from the hand of the ungodly.

Cross References

Psalm 83:18

And they shall know that thou, whose name is Jehovah, art only the most highest 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 because that they dealt proudly with them."

Psalm 96:4

For the LORD is great, and can not worthily be praised: he is more to be feared than all gods. {TYNDALE: For great is the LORD, and to be praised exceedingly: and terrible is he 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

As for our God, he is in heaven; he doth whatsoever it pleaseth him.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity:

Jeremiah 10:10

But the LORD is a true God, a living God, and an everlasting king. If he be wroth, the earth shaketh: all the Gentiles may not abide his indignation.

Ephesians 1:21

above all rule, power, and might, and domination, and above all names that are named, not in this world only, but also in the world to come.

Philippians 2:9-11

Wherefore God hath exalted him, and given him a name above all names:

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