For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.
Parallel translations
- KJV For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
- BSB For You, O LORD, are Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.
- NKJV For You, Lord, are most high above all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.
- NASB For You are the Lord Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.
- NLT For you, O Lord, are supreme over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Ps 95:3For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.
- Exod 18:11Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.”
- Ps 83:18that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
- Jer 10:10But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation.
- Phil 2:9–11Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
- Ps 135:5For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.
- Eph 1:21far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
- Ps 96:4For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.
- Jer 10:8But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
- Ps 115:3–8But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.
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