But You, Lord, are on high forevermore.
Parallel translations
- WEB But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more.
- KJV But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
- BSB But You, O LORD, are exalted forever!
- NASB But You, Lord, are on high forever.
- NLT But you, O Lord, will be exalted forever.
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
In contrast to the perishing wicked, the LORD is exalted forever. God's eternal supremacy is the anchor for the believer's confidence.
Overview
This single line stands at the heart of the psalm, contrasting the doomed evildoers with the LORD who reigns on high eternally. God's unchanging exaltation guarantees that justice will prevail. Christ now reigns exalted at the Father's right hand, assuring the same outcome (Philippians 2:9; Hebrews 1:3).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 83:18that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
- Acts 12:22–24The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
- Acts 12:1Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
- Ps 56:2My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
- Ps 93:4Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
- Eccl 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
- Ps 102:26–27They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
- Exod 18:11Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.”
- Dan 4:34–35At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
Themes, concepts, people & topics
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 92:8 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.