Lexicon :: Strong's H5945 - ʿelyôn

The oracle of him who hears the words of God

And knows the knowledge of the [fn]Most High,

Who sees the vision of the [fn]Almighty,

Falling down, but having his eyes open and uncovered:

“Now it shall be, if you diligently listen to and obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all of His commandments which I am commanding you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,

When He separated the sons of man,

He set the boundaries of the peoples

According to the number of the sons of Israel.

“The LORD thundered from heaven,

And the Most High uttered His voice.

Then the king of Assyria sent [fn]the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rabshakeh [his highest officials] with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem, and when they went up and arrived, they stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is on the road of the Fuller’s Field.

I will give thanks to the LORD according to His righteousness and justice,

And I will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

I will rejoice and exult in you;

I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

The LORD also thundered in the heavens,

And the Most High uttered His voice,

Hailstones and coals of fire.

For the king [confidently] trusts in the LORD,

And through the lovingkindness (faithfulness, goodness) of the Most High he will never be shaken.

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,

The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

For the LORD Most High is to be feared [and worshiped with awe-inspired reverence and obedience];

He is a great King over all the earth.

“Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving

And pay your vows to the Most High;

I will cry to God Most High,

Who accomplishes all things on my behalf [for He completes my purpose in His plan].

They say, “How does God know?

Is there knowledge [of us] with the Most High?”

And I said, “This is my grief,

That the right hand of the Most High has changed [and His lovingkindness is withheld].”

Yet they still continued to sin against Him

By rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

And they remembered that God was their rock,

And the Most High God their Redeemer.

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God

And did not keep His testimonies (laws).

I said, “You are [fn]gods;

Indeed, all of you are sons of the Most High.

That they may know that You alone, whose name is the LORD,

Are the Most High over all the earth.

But of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one were born in her,”

And the Most High Himself will establish her.

“I will also make him My firstborn (preeminent),

The highest of the kings of the earth.

He who [fn]dwells in the shelter of the Most High

Will remain secure and rest in the shadow of the Almighty [whose power no enemy can withstand].

Because you have made the LORD, [who is] my refuge,

Even the Most High, your dwelling place,

A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath day.

It is a good and delightful thing to give thanks to the LORD,

To sing praises to Your name, O Most High,

For You are the LORD Most High over all the earth;

You are exalted far above all gods.

Because they had rebelled against the precepts of God

And spurned the counsel of the Most High.

Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz [king of Judah], you and your son [fn]Shear-jashub, at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the highway to the [fn]Fuller’s Field;

‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;

I will make myself like the Most High.’

To deprive a man of justice

In the presence of the Most High,

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High

That both adversity (misfortune) and good (prosperity, happiness) proceed?