Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.'

He does not take his eyes off the righteous; but with kings on the throne he seats the righteous and exalts them forever.

Indeed, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard.