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Selected Verse: Psalms 97:9 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 97:9 |
King James |
For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| above all gods-- (Psa 95:3). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth - See the notes at Psa 83:18.
Thou art exalted far above all gods - See the notes at Psa 95:3. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| This distichic epiphonema (Psa 97:9 = Ps 83:19; Psa 97:9, cf. Psa 47:3, 10) might close the Psalm; there follows still, however, a hortatory strophe (which was perhaps not added till later on). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| For thou, Lord, art high - Thou art infinitely exalted above men and angels. |
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
9 For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
9 For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.