Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.
Parallel translations
- KJV The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
- BSB The LORD is exalted over all the nations, His glory above the heavens.
- NKJV The Lord is high above all nations, His glory above the heavens.
- NASB The Lord is high above all nations; His glory is above the heavens.
- NLT For the Lord is high above the nations; his glory is higher than the heavens.
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Cross-references · 10
- Ps 8:1For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!
- Ps 99:2Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples.
- Ps 97:9For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.
- Ps 148:13let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
- Isa 40:17All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
- Ps 57:10–11For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.
- Isa 66:1Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?
- Isa 40:15Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
- Isa 40:22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
- 1 Kgs 8:27But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
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