Psalm 97:9

For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.

EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(9) For the first clause see Psalm 83:18; for the second Psalm 47:2-9.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

97:8-12 The faithful servants of God may well rejoice and be glad, because he is glorified; and whatever tends to his honour, is his people's pleasure. Care is taken for their safety. But something more is meant than their lives. The Lord will preserve the souls of his saints from sin, from apostacy, and despair, under their greatest trials. He will deliver them out of the hands of the wicked one, and preserve them safe to his heavenly kingdom. And those that rejoice in Christ Jesus, and in his exaltation, have fountains of joy prepared for them. Those that sow in tears, shall reap in joy. Gladness is sure to the upright in heart; the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment. Sinners tremble, but saints rejoice at God's holiness. As he hates sin, yet freely loves the person of the repentant sinner who believes in Christ, he will make a final separation between the person he loves and the sin he hates, and sanctify his people wholly, body, soul, and spirit.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth - See the notes at Psalm 83:18.

Thou art exalted far above all gods - See the notes at Psalm 95:3.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

9. above all gods—(Ps 95:3).

Matthew Poole's Commentary

As thou always wert so in truth, so thou hast now proved and declared thyself to be such in the eyes of the whole world, by subduing them under thy feet.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth,.... Above all the inhabitants of the earth, as the Targum; he is highly exalted above every name, men of the greatest name that is named in the world; he is made higher than the heavens, and the inhabitants of it; and has all power in heaven and earth, as Mediator; and, as a divine Person, he is the most high God, as the word "Elion", here used, signifies; and all this lays a foundation for joy and gladness in the saints; even the dignity of Christ's person, and the exaltation of him in the human nature:

thou art exalted far above all gods: not only the fictitious deities of the Gentiles, or the greatest potentates upon earth, being made higher than the kings of the earth, who are called gods; but also than the angels in heaven; he is set down at the right hand of God, where they are not, and never were, nor shall be; angels, authorities, and powers, being subject to him, Hebrews 1:13.

Geneva Study Bible

For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.

EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

9. For thou, Jehovah, art the Most High above all the earth,

Thou art exceedingly exalted above all gods.

From Psalm 83:18; Psalm 47:2; Psalm 47:9 : cp. Psalm 95:3.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 9. - For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth; rather, art the Most High (eliun) above all the earth (see the Revised Version). Thou art exalted far above all gods (comp. ver. 7, and see also Psalm 83:18). No comparison can be made between Jehovah and the heathen gods. He is "exalted" far, far above them. Psalm 97:9

Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

This distichic epiphonema (Psalm 97:9 equals Psalm 83:19; Psalm 97:9, cf. Psalm 47:3, 10) might close the Psalm; there follows still, however, a hortatory strophe (which was perhaps not added till later on).