*Minor differences ignored. Grouped by changes, with first version listed as example.
But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore - In the treatment of the righteous and the wicked, thou wilt maintain thine own exalted place as a sovereign. Whatever may occur to people, God will maintain this exalted position as supreme over all.
High for evermore - They are brought down and destroyed; but the Lord is exalted eternally, both for his judgments and his mercies.
But thou, LORD, [art (f) most] high for evermore.
(f) Your judgments are most constant against the wicked and pass our reach.
But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore,.... God is "the most High"; that is one of his names; he is above all, is higher than the highest; and he dwells on high, and looks down upon the inhabitants of the earth, and sees what is doing among them; and to him they will be accountable another day for what they do; and when wicked, men perish, being destroyed, he will continue for ever in all his greatness, glory, and majesty; for there seems to be an antithesis in this verse to the former, or between wicked men and the Lord; and besides he endures for ever to inflict punishment upon them; and therefore it is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
This he does in part, by contrasting their ruin with God's exaltation and eternity.
most high--as occupying the highest place in heaven (Psalm 7:7; Psalm 18:16).
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