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href="../psalms/97-8.htm" title="Psalm 97:8">◄</a> Psalm 97:9 <a href="../psalms/97-10.htm" title="Psalm 97:10">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">For thou, LORD, <i>art</i> high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/psalms/97.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/psalms/97.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/psalms/97.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/psalms/97.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/psalms/97.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/psalms/97.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/psalms/97.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a 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47:2-9</a>.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/psalms/97.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>97:8-12 The faithful servants of God may well rejoice and be glad, because he is glorified; and whatever tends to his honour, is his people's pleasure. Care is taken for their safety. But something more is meant than their lives. The Lord will preserve the souls of his saints from sin, from apostacy, and despair, under their greatest trials. He will deliver them out of the hands of the wicked one, and preserve them safe to his heavenly kingdom. And those that rejoice in Christ Jesus, and in his exaltation, have fountains of joy prepared for them. Those that sow in tears, shall reap in joy. Gladness is sure to the upright in heart; the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment. Sinners tremble, but saints rejoice at God's holiness. As he hates sin, yet freely loves the person of the repentant sinner who believes in Christ, he will make a final separation between the person he loves and the sin he hates, and sanctify his people wholly, body, soul, and spirit.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/psalms/97.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth - See the notes at <a href="/psalms/83-18.htm">Psalm 83:18</a>.<p>Thou art exalted far above all gods - See the notes at <a href="/psalms/95-3.htm">Psalm 95:3</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/psalms/97.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>9. above all gods—(Ps 95:3).<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/psalms/97.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> As thou always wert so in truth, so thou hast now proved and declared thyself to be such in the eyes of the whole world, by subduing them under thy feet. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/psalms/97.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth,.... Above all the inhabitants of the earth, as the Targum; he is highly exalted above every name, men of the greatest name that is named in the world; he is made higher than the heavens, and the inhabitants of it; and has all power in heaven and earth, as Mediator; and, as a divine Person, he is the most high God, as the word "Elion", here used, signifies; and all this lays a foundation for joy and gladness in the saints; even the dignity of Christ's person, and the exaltation of him in the human nature: <p>thou art exalted far above all gods: not only the fictitious deities of the Gentiles, or the greatest potentates upon earth, being made higher than the kings of the earth, who are called gods; but also than the angels in heaven; he is set down at the right hand of God, where they are not, and never were, nor shall be; angels, authorities, and powers, being subject to him, <a href="/hebrews/1-13.htm">Hebrews 1:13</a>. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/psalms/97.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/psalms/97.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">9</span>. For thou, Jehovah, art the Most High above all the earth,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Thou art exceedingly exalted above all gods.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>From <a href="/psalms/83-18.htm" title="That men may know that you, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, are the most high over all the earth.">Psalm 83:18</a>; <a href="/psalms/47-2.htm" title="For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.">Psalm 47:2</a>; <a href="/psalms/47-9.htm" title="The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong to God: he is greatly exalted.">Psalm 47:9</a> : cp. <a href="/psalms/95-3.htm" title="For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.">Psalm 95:3</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/97.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 9.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth;</span> rather, <span class="accented">art the Most High</span> (<span class="accented">eliun</span>) <span class="accented">above all the earth</span> (see the Revised Version). <span class="cmt_word">Thou art exalted far above all gods</span> (comp. ver. 7, and see also <a href="/psalms/83-18.htm">Psalm 83:18</a>). No comparison can be made between Jehovah and the heathen gods. He is "exalted" far, far above them. Psalm 97:9<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/psalms/97.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>This distichic epiphonema (<a href="/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9</a> equals <a href="/psalms/83-19.htm">Psalm 83:19</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9</a>, cf. <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/47-3.htm">Psalm 47:3</a>, 10) might close the Psalm; there follows still, however, a hortatory strophe (which was perhaps not added till later on). <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/psalms/97-9.htm">Psalm 97:9 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../psalms/97-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 97:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 97:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/97-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 97:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 97:10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>