The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
- BSB The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
- NKJV The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
- NASB The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
- NLT Though the Lord is very great and lives in heaven, he will make Jerusalem his home of justice and righteousness.
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Quick answer
The LORD is exalted, dwelling on high, and He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness. It matters because God's exaltation secures a city marked by His character.
Overview
This verse lifts up the exalted LORD who dwells on high and fills Zion with justice and righteousness. God's supremacy is paired with His gift of moral order to His people. It anticipates the city of God where righteousness dwells, established through the exalted Christ who reigns over His redeemed people.
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- Isa 2:17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
- Isa 32:15–18Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
- Eph 1:20–21Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
- Rom 11:26And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
- Rev 19:2–6For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
- Dan 4:37Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
- 2 Chr 31:20–21And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
- Isa 12:4And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
- Ps 123:1Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
- Isa 60:21Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
- Exod 18:11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
- Isa 61:3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
- Job 40:9–14Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
- Exod 15:6Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
- Rom 3:26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
- Isa 2:11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
- Ps 113:5–6Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
- Isa 61:11For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
- Isa 57:15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
- Isa 1:26–27And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
- Ps 118:16The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
- Exod 9:16–17And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
- Isa 66:1Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
- Exod 15:1Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
- Ps 46:9–10He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
- Ps 97:8–9Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
- Ps 21:11–13For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
- Isa 33:10Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
- Isa 28:6And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
- Isa 37:20Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
- Isa 4:2–4In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
- Isa 54:11–14O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
- Ps 115:1–2Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.
- Isa 32:1Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
- Isa 52:1Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
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