Psalms 96:9
For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth: thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quoniam tu Dominus altissimus super omnem terram ; nimis exaltatus es super omnes deos.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι σὺ εἶ Κύριος ὁ ὕψιστος ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν, σφόδρα ὑπερυψώθης ὑπὲρ πάντας τοὺς θεούς.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 97:9
- כִּֽי אַתָּ֤ה יְהוָ֗ה עֶלְי֥וֹן עַל כָּל הָאָ֑רֶץ מְאֹ֥ד נַ֝עֲלֵ֗יתָ עַל כָּל אֱלֹהִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Gods. Princes or angels, elohim, ver. 7. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Origen Origen Against Celsus, Chapter III
Before proceeding to the next point, it may be well for us to see whether we do not accept with approval the saying, “No man can serve two masters,” with the addition, “for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other,” and further, “Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” The defence of this passage will lead us to a deeper and more searching inquiry into the meaning and application of the words “gods” and “lords.” Divine Scripture teaches us that there is “a great Lord above all gods.” And by this name “gods” we are not to understand the objects of heathen worship (for we know that “all the gods of the heathen are demons”), but the gods mentioned by the prophets as forming an assembly, whom God “judges,” and to each of whom He assigns his proper work. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XCVII
12. See if this be not the reason for the joy of the daughters of Judah. “For Thou, Lord, art most high over all the earth” ( ver. 9 ). Not in Judæa alone, but over Jerusalem; not over Sion only, but over all the earth. To this whole earth the judgments of God prevailed, so that it assembled its nations from every quarter: judgments with which they who have cut themselves off have no communion: they neither hear the prophecy, nor see its completion; “For Thou, Lord, art most high over all the earth: Thou art exalted far above all gods.” What is “far”? For it is said of Christ. What then meaneth “far,” except that Thou mayest be acknowledged coequal with the Father? What meaneth, “above all gods”? Who are they? Idols have not life, have not sense: devils have life and sense; but they are evil. …