Praise him, skies above! Praise him, vapors high above the clouds!
Parallel translations
- WEB Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens.
- KJV Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be 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!
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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 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!
- Gen 1:7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
- Deut 10:14Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
- Neh 9:6You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
- Ps 68:33To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
- Gen 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky’s windows were opened.
- Ps 113:6Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
- Ps 104:3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
- 2 Cor 12:2I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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