Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.
Parallel translations
- WEB Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens.
- BSB Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies.
- NKJV Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens!
- NASB Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens!
- NLT Praise him, skies above! Praise him, vapors high above the clouds!
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Quick answer
The highest heavens and the waters above are called to praise God. Even the most exalted and remote parts of creation owe Him worship.
Overview
The 'heavens of heavens' and the waters above join the summons to praise, sweeping in the whole created order. Nothing in creation is exempt from owing God worship. All of it exists by the will and word of the Creator, who upholds it in Christ (Hebrews 1:3).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- 1 Kgs 8:27But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
- Gen 1:7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
- Deut 10:14Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
- Neh 9:6Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
- Ps 68:33To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
- Gen 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
- Ps 113:6Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
- Ps 104:3Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
- 2 Cor 12:2I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
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