Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.
Parallel translations
- WEB Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth.
- BSB Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; may Your glory cover all the earth.
- NKJV Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; Let Your glory be above all the earth.
- NASB Be exalted above the heavens, God; May Your glory be above all the earth.
- NLT Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens. May your glory shine over all the earth.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. lockman.org
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Quick answer
David again prays that God be exalted above the heavens and his glory over all the earth. It closes the psalm with the same God-exalting refrain.
Overview
Repeating verse 5, David ends where his praise centered: in the desire that God be glorified everywhere. The refrain frames the whole psalm with worship, showing that God's glory is its true aim. It calls all readers to make the exaltation of God their highest longing.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Ps 57:5Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
- Ps 8:1O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
- Rev 15:3–4And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
- Ps 8:9O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Resources, by level
Commentaries & study tools
Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.
Sermons and teaching on this passage from across YouTube.
Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.
Matthew Henry, Barnes, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Ellicott, Cambridge, and more — stacked on one page for this exact verse.
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.
Christ at the center
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.
How Psalms 57:11 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.
Original language
Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.