'Lofty' in the Bible
Isn’t God as high as the heavens?And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!
His ways are always secure;Your lofty judgments are beyond his sight;he scoffs at all his adversaries.
Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;Death will shepherd them.The upright will rule over them in the morning,and their form will waste away in Sheol,far from their lofty abode.
This extraordinary knowledge is beyond me.It is lofty; I am unable to reach it.
For a day belonging to the Lord of Hosts is comingagainst all that is proud and lofty,against all that is lifted up—it will be humbled—
against all the cedars of Lebanon,lofty and lifted up,against all the oaks of Bashan,
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and His robe filled the temple.
For He has humbled those who live in lofty places—an inaccessible city.He brings it down; He brings it down to the ground;He throws it to the dust.
You have placed your bedon a high and lofty mountain;you also went up there to offer sacrifice.
Look down from heaven and seefrom Your lofty home—holy and beautiful.Where is Your zeal and Your might?Your yearning and Your compassionare withheld from me.
This is what the Lord God says:I will take a sprigfrom the lofty top of the cedar and plant it.I will pluck a tender sprigfrom its topmost shoots,and I will plant iton a high towering mountain.
Think of Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon,with beautiful branches and shady foliageand of lofty height.Its top was among the clouds.
I will tend them with good pasture, and their grazing place will be on Israel’s lofty mountains. There they will lie down in a good grazing place; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
Sun and moon stand still in their lofty residence,at the flash of Your flying arrows,at the brightness of Your shining spear.