The LORD My Shepherd: A Topical Devotional Guide for the Psalms

By Donald Orthner

Psalms is widely considered the most-loved book in the Bible. Its intensely personal passages picture our own struggles, defeats, and victories; its instruction includes numerous principles and practices for godly worship, service, and day-to-day living. The Psalms high praises of Almighty God ring through many of our beloved hymns and songs. Psalms historical scope ranges from the days of creation through prophecies of the Messiah's life, death, resurrection, and coming again. Martin Luther called Psalms a little Bible, and indeed it is. The LORD My Shepherd captures these and many more pertinent subjects in a devotional topical format. It's for understanding and applying the Psalms in your own life and worship. Come, Magnify the LORD with me!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ambassador International
• Release date: Nov 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781620200865

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The LORD My Shepherd

A Topical Devotional Guide for the Psalms

© 2012 by Donald P. Orthner

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The refreshing waters of the Bible’s hymnbook have been made easier for us to sail by these navigational aids Don Orthner has spent years preparing and now puts in our hands. What a useful tool this is for anyone studying the Psalms expositionally or devotionally!

—BOB JONES III

Chancellor, Bob Jones University

"Don has accomplished a yeoman’s task in giving Christendom a topical study of the entire book of Psalms. Pastors, teachers, and laymen all will benefit from this easy way to find not only the references that deal with a particular topic, but also their context and insight into their meaning. This sequel to his topical study of the book of Proverbs, Wellsprings of Life, is a great resource for plumbing the deep and precious truths found in the psalms."

—KEN HAY

A founder and Chairman of the Board of

The Wilds Christian Association

Many times I have fled to the Psalms in my devotional life for encouragement and refreshment for my soul. Many times in ministry, I have directed others to do the same. This wonderful book will amplify that encouragement and refreshment. I encourage all believers to read it carefully and bask in it repeatedly.

—KEITH WIEBE

President, American Association of Christian Schools

Some devotional books consist primarily of men’s words with a dusting of God’s throughout, but this simple and practical study plunges the reader into the depths of Scripture with minimal, yet helpful, commentary. It lays out a clear path to knowing the almighty Being Who created us, Who offers redemption to us, and Who desires a personal relationship with us. I commend it to all those who seek guidance for their personal worship and growth in grace.

—ABE STRATTON

Youth Pastor, Heritage Bible Church, Greer SC

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Dedication

What Christian Leaders Say About this Book . . .

Preface

Part One: The Promise & The Power of the Psalms

Chapter 1: Blessed is the Man . . .

Song: Blessed is the One

Part Two: Glory to God in the Highest

Chapter 2: The High & Holy LORD God Almighty

Chapter 3: The Maker & Sustainer of All

Song: By the Word of the Lord

Chapter 4: The Majestic King of All Kings

Part Three: Our Grevious Sin & The Good News of Salvation

Chapter 5: God's Good & Righteous Laws & Commands

Chapter 6: Our Double Curse—Sin & Death

Chapter 7: Joy to the World: the LORD is Come

Song: He is Worthy

Chapter 8: Receiving Salvation & Fearing the LORD

Part Four: Our Gracious God and Heavenly Father

Chapter 9: The Lovingkindness & Mercy of God

Song: In Lovingkindness

Chapter 10: Taste & See— the LORD is Good

Chapter 11: Our Rock & Refuge, Strength & Shield

Chapter 12: Great is Thy Faithfulness!

Part Five: The Eternal and Living Word of God

Chapter 13: Thy Word is Truth

Chapter 14: Oh, How I Love Thy Law!

Song: The Word of the Lord

Part Six: Walking in God's Ways

Chapter 15: The Just Shall Live by Faith

Chapter 16: Priorities for Upright Living

Chapter 17: The Believer's Relationships

Chapter 18: Showing God's Love to Needy People

Part Seven: Prayer to the God of My Life

Chapter 19: Your Face, LORD, I Will Seek

Song: Your Face, Lord, I Will Seek

Chapter 20: Hear My Cry, O LORD!

Chapter 21: Defend Me, LORD, Against Lies & Deceit!

Chapter 22: Save me, LORD, from my Oppressors!

Chapter 23: Strong Deliverer; Mighty to Save

Part Eight: Thou God Seest Me

Chapter 24: Our All-Knowing, Ever-Present God

Song: God Looks from Heaven

Chapter 25: Against Thee Have I Sinned

Chapter 26: The Seeming Prosperity of Sinful People

Chapter 27: God's Wrath Against the Unrepentant

Part Ten: Learn From Israel—God's Chosen People

Chapter 28: The Chosen Seed of Abraham

Chapter 29: David—After God's Own Heart

Chapter 30: Glorious Zion—City of God

Part Eleven: Israel's Sin, Suffering, and Sorrow

Chapter 31: Sin's Devetating Effect on Israel

Chapter 32: Imprecations for the LORD's Sake

Part Twelve: Parallels Between Israel's Past, Present, & Future

Chapter 33: Weep for Jerusal & Pray for Its Peace

Chapter 34: Israel Needs the Messiah!

Song: O People of Abraham

Part Thirteen: And He Shall Reign Forever & Ever

Chapter 35: Joy to the World; the LORD Will Come!

Chapter 36: Our LORD & King, the Righteous Judge

Song: It's in His Name

Part Fourteen: Oh, Magnify the LORD With Me!

Chapter 37: Come, Worship the LORD!

Chapter 38: Sing to the LORD a New Song!

Chapter 39: Bless The LORD, O My Soul!

Chapter 40: Praise the LORD! Hallelujah!

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A friend once asked me to summarize this book’s main themes. I replied along the following lines:

It exalts God’s great and glorious being – as the high and holy Lord God Almighty, the Creator and Sustainer of everything, and the sovereign King over all His creation.

It emphasizes the believer’s personal relationship with and dependence upon God – for meaning and purpose in life, for daily guidance and provision, for victory over sins, and for eternal life with Him both now and forever.

It unfolds God’s grand design for His entire creation – from the beginning of time, through the ages, and culminating in the still-future glorious reign of Jesus Christ.

Major related topics which are prominent both in Psalms and in this book include:

The authority and all-sufficiency of God’s holy Word

The crucial roles of prayer and worship in a believer’s life

The believer’s relationships with other people

The consequences of disobeying and rejecting God

Lessons we should learn and heed from Israel’s history

What is left outside of Psalms purview? Not much. Martin Luther referred to Psalms as a little Bible, and indeed it is. As with the whole of scripture, both the multiplicity of topics covered in Psalms and the dispersion of their material throughout the book invite us to study the psalms topically. This approach, of course, should supplement, not replace, reading each full psalm as its own message to us from God. In this book, each verse in Psalms is included under at least one topic, with many verses included under two or more topics.

This book reviews the psalms through the lens of the New Testament. That is, when the New Testament expounds or expands upon a passage from Psalms, this book follows its lead. Indeed, without this perspective, many passages in Psalms would remain veiled and their message uncertain. As Paul wrote to Christians at Corinth regarding unbelieving Jews (and which is true of unbelievers today), Their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ (II Corinthians 3:14). The key to understanding the psalms is to understand what other scriptures say about Jesus Christ. This book seeks to make that connection.

The table of contents shows how this book is organized in a logical, systematic way. After presenting the psalms’ many beatitudes as an introduction, the book highlights the reasons God alone is God and why we are fully accountable to Him. It proceeds with clear pictures of our hopeless condition apart from His saving power, and how He remedies our helpless estate through Jesus Christ. Then, with Christ as our Savior and God as our Heavenly Father, the focus turns to the great benefits and related responsibilities we have in these eternal relationships.

After dealing with the problems we face involving our own sins and other sinners, the book reviews Israel’s tumultuous history and the lessons we need to learn from it. These continuous themes culminate in Christ’s second coming, His glorious reign, and His righteous judgment of everyone who has ever lived. In response to all of these great revelations, and to the precious promises God makes to believers regarding them, the book concludes with a hymnal of praise, thanksgiving, and worship for God’s incredible greatness and goodness. Amen and Amen! May God bless His holy Word to each of us.

—DON ORTHNER

For the LORD God is a sun and shield;

The LORD will give grace and glory;

No good thing will He withhold

From those who walk uprightly.

O LORD of hosts,

Blessed is the man who trusts in You!

PSALM 84:11-12

TO BE BLESSED IN THE ways that God offers in the psalms is to be spiritually prosperous, genuinely happy, and providentially fortunate. God graciously bestows this favored state on those who faithfully follow His ways. At its foundation are spiritual health and vitality with fundamental joy and peace. Such blessedness includes emotional strength and stability, typically evidenced in a cheerful and contented disposition. It may further include particular physical and material endowments. God, in His all-wise goodness and grace, determines the exact composition, measure, and timing of each aspect of the blessedness He lovingly grants to each of His faithful children.

The beatitudes placed throughout the psalms resemble those that Christ offered in His Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-12) in promising God’s loving favor for heart attitudes and resulting behavior that please and glorify Him. Significantly, in both sets of blesseds, the priorities and lifestyles that God desires to see in us differ greatly from those that typically stem from human nature and its worldly ideals. The first psalm clearly presents the contrasts between these opposite paths and between the ends to which they lead.

I. Blessed is the man (the man, woman, youth, or child) who is grounded in God’s Word and walks in God’s ways

A. He delights in God and His Word, not in worldly pursuits

¹:¹ Blessed is the man

Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,

Nor stands in the path of sinners,

Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

² But his delight is in the law of the LORD,

And in His law he meditates day and night.

B. He is planted and nourished by God Who prospers all his ways

³ He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,

That brings forth its fruit in its season,

Whose leaf also shall not wither;

And whatever he does shall prosper.

C. He is not like the ungodly who are as chaff in the wind

⁴ The ungodly are not so,

But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

⁵ Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,

Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

D. He is loved and secured by God forever

⁶ For the LORD knows [intimately] the way of the righteous,

But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Note: LORD in the Bible is God’s personal name Jehovah. It is the most distinctive name by which God was known in Israel and is tied inseparably to His unique covenant relationship with His people (LORD appears over 6,000 times in the Old Testament). LORD also emphasizes God’s self-disclosure to His people; it comes from the same root word as I AM , the name that God gave Himself to convince the children of Israel that He had commissioned Moses to lead them out of Egypt. I AM confirms that what God was in the past, He is in the present, and always will be in the future.

With the highly-personal nature of numerous psalms, the overwhelming use of LORD as the name of God throughout the book emphasizes the intimate personal relationship He desires to have with each of us as His own special people. The LORD knows the way of the righteous, and through His Word, we may know the way of the LORD O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in You!

II. Blessed is the man who trusts in God for every aspect of his life

A. He continually looks to God – his maker, helper, and keeper

¹⁴⁶:⁵ Happy [blessed] is he who has the God of Jacob for his help,

Whose hope [confident trust] is in the LORD his God,

⁶ Who made heaven and earth,

The sea, and all that is in them;

Who keeps truth [remains faithful] forever,

⁵:¹¹ Let all those rejoice who put their trust in You;

Let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them;

Let those also who love Your name be joyful in You.

¹² For You, O LORD, will bless the righteous;

With favor You will surround him as with a shield.

³:³ You, O LORD, are a shield for me,

My glory and the One who lifts up my head.

⁸ Salvation belongs to the LOR

Your blessing is upon Your people.

²⁹:¹¹ The LORD will give strength to His people;

The LORD will bless His people with peace.

²:¹² . . . Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

B. He readily receives and obeys God’s instruction

⁹⁴:¹² Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O LORD,

And teach out of Your law,

¹³ That You may give him rest from the days of adversity,

Until the pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴ For the LORD will not cast off His people,

Nor will He forsake His inheritance.

¹⁵ But judgment [justice] will return to righteousness,

And all the upright in heart will follow it.

C. He draws his spiritual strength from the LORD

⁸⁴:⁵ Blessed is the man whose strength is in You,

Whose heart is set on pilgrimage [to meet with God].

⁶ As they pass through the Valley of Baca [of weeping],

They make it a spring [of joy];

The rain also covers it with pools [of blessing].

⁷ They go from strength to strength;

Each one appears before God in Zion.

¹¹ For the LORD God is a sun and shield;

The LORD will give grace and glory;

No good thing will He withhold

From those who walk uprightly.

¹² O LORD of hosts,

Blessed is the man who trusts in You!

D. He grows in the LORD and bears fruit for His glory

⁹²:⁴ You, LORD, have made me glad [happy, blessed] through Your work;

I will triumph in the works of Your hands.

¹² The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree,

He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹³ Those who are planted in the house of the LORD

Shall flourish in the courts of our God.

¹⁴ They shall still bear fruit in old age;

They shall be fresh and flourishing,

¹⁵ To declare that the LORD is upright;

He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

III. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD with steadfast faith and joyful obedience

Note: The fear of the LORD in scripture is an exceptionally broad term that encompasses every aspect of a believer’s relationship with God. It includes: a reverential awe for God’s glory and majesty, a willing submission to His power and authority, a healthy dread of His holiness and justice, a faithful obedience to His commands and desires, a continuing trust in His forgiveness and righteousness, and grateful worship and service for His boundless love and grace. (See chapter 8, sections III – VI.)

A. He trusts in God’s goodness and faithfulness for all that he needs

³⁴:⁸ Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good;

Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!

⁹ Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints!

There is no want [no lack] to those who fear Him.

¹⁰ The young lions lack and suffer hunger;

But those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

¹¹⁵:¹¹ You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD;

He is their help and their shield.

¹² The LORD has been mindful of us;

He will bless us; . . .

¹³ He will bless those who fear the LORD,

Both small and great.

¹⁴ May the LORD give you increase more and more,

You and your children.

¹⁵ May you be blessed by the LORD,

Who made heaven and earth.

B. He loves God’s Word and exhibits godly character

¹¹²:¹ Praise the LORD!

Blessed is the man who fears the LORD,

Who delights greatly in His commandments.

² His descendants will be mighty on earth;

The generation of the upright will be blessed.

³ Wealth and riches will be in his house,

And his righteousness endures forever.

⁴ Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness;

He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

⁵ A good man deals graciously and lends;

He will guide his affairs with discretion.

⁶ Surely he will never be shaken;

The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance.

C. He faithfully walks with God and leads his family in godly ways

¹²⁸:¹ Blessed is every one who fears the LORD,

Who walks in His ways.

² When you eat the labor of your hands,

You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.

³ Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine

In the very heart of your house,

Your children like olive plants

All around your table.

⁴ Behold, thus shall the man be blessed

Who fears the LOR

⁵ The LORD bless you out of Zion, . . .

All the days of your life.

¹²⁷:³ Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,

The fruit of the womb is a reward.

⁴ Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,

So are the children of one’s youth.

⁵ Happy [blessed] is the man who has his quiver full of them;

They shall not be ashamed,

But shall speak [ably contend] with their enemies in the gate.

IV. Blessed is the man who seeks to please God with his whole heart and life

A. He consistently lives an upright life

¹¹⁹:¹ Blessed are the undefiled in the way,

Who walk in the law of the LORD!

² Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,

Who seek Him with the whole heart!

³ They also do no iniquity;

They walk in His ways.

⁴⁰:⁴ Blessed is that man who makes the LORD his trust,

And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

⁵ Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works

Which You have done;

And Your thoughts toward us

Cannot be recounted to You in order;

If I would declare and speak of them,

They are more than can be numbered.

¹⁰⁶:³ Blessed are those who keep justice,

And he who does righteousness at all times!

B. He readily confesses and forsakes his sins

³²:¹ Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,

Whose sin is covered.

² Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity

[counts no sin against him],

And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

⁵ I acknowledged my sin to You,

And my iniquity I have not hidden.

I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,

And You forgave the iniquity of my sin.

V. Blessed is the man who is merciful and gracious toward others

A. He is considerate of the poor and needy

⁴¹:¹ Blessed is he who considers the poor [the weak and helpless];

The LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

² The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive,

And he will be blessed on the earth;

You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

³ The LORD will strengthen him on his bed of illness;

You will sustain [restore] him on his sickbed.

B. He shows mercy and gives liberally as a way of life

³⁷:²¹ The wicked borrows and does not repay,

But the righteous shows mercy and gives.

²² For those blessed by Him [by God] shall inherit the earth,

But those cursed by Him shall be cut off.

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old;

Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,

Nor his descendants begging bread.

²⁶ He is ever merciful, and lends [freely];

And his descendants are blessed.

VI. Blessed is the man who worships and praises God with joy and thanksgiving

A. He gladly enters God’s house and savors His presence

⁶⁵:⁴ Blessed is the man You choose, and cause to approach You,

That he may dwell in Your courts.

We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,

Of Your holy temple.

⁸⁴:⁴ Blessed are those who dwell in Your house;

They will still be praising You.

¹⁰ For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand [anywhere else].

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God

Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹³⁴:² Lift up your hands in the sanctuary,

And bless the LOR

³ The LORD who made heaven and earth

Bless you from Zion!

B. He joyfully worships God together with fellow believers

⁸⁹:¹⁵ Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound [of praise to God]!

They walk, O LORD, in the light of Your countenance.

¹⁶ In Your name they rejoice all day long,

And in Your righteousness they are exalted.

¹⁷ For You are the glory of their strength,

And in Your favor our horn [position and strength] is exalted.

¹⁴⁴:¹⁵ . . . Happy [blessed] are the people whose God is the LORD!

C. He looks forward to the day when all people will praise and worship God

⁶⁷:¹ God be merciful to us and bless us,

And cause His face to shine upon us,

² That Your way may be known on earth,

Your salvation among all nations.

³ Let the peoples praise You, O God;

Let all the peoples praise You.

⁴ Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy!

For You shall judge the people righteously,

And govern the nations on earth.

⁵ Let the peoples praise You, O God;

Let all the peoples praise You.

⁶ Then the earth shall yield her increase;

God, our own God, shall bless us.

⁷ God shall bless us,

And all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.

I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim . . . and one cried to another and said:

" Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;

The whole earth is full of His glory!"

And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. So I said:

"Woe is me, for I am undone!

Because I am a man of unclean lips,

And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;

For my eyes have seen the King,

The LORD of hosts."

ISAIAH 6:1-5

I. Worship and glorify the LORD God Almighty

A. . . . because He alone is God!

⁵⁷:⁵ Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;

Let Your glory be above all the earth.

⁹ I will praise You, O Lord, among the peoples;

I will sing to You among the nations.

¹⁰ For Your mercy reaches unto the heavens,

And Your truth unto the clouds.

¹¹ Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;

Let Your glory be above all the earth.

⁸⁶:⁸ Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord;

Nor are there any works like Your works.

⁹ All nations whom You have made

Shall come and worship before You, O Lord,

And shall glorify Your name.

¹⁰ For You are great, and do wondrous things;

You alone are God.

B. . . . because He is transcendent and holy (high above and independent of His creation)

⁹⁹:² The LORD is great in Zion,

And He is high above all the peoples.

³ Let them praise Your great and awesome name—

He is holy.

⁹ Exalt the LORD our God,

And worship at His holy hill;

For the LORD our God is holy.

⁹⁷:¹² Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous,

And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name [His holy being and character].

¹⁴⁵:²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD,

And all flesh shall bless His holy name

Forever and ever.

C. . . . because He is perfectly just and righteous

⁸⁹:¹⁴ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;

Mercy and truth go before Your face.

⁷¹:¹⁹ Also Your righteousness, O God, is very high,

You who have done great things;

O God, who is like You?

⁷¹:¹⁵ My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness

And Your salvation all the day,

For I do not know their limits.

³³:⁴ For the word of the LORD is right,

And all His work is done in truth.

⁵ He loves righteousness and justice;

The earth is full of the goodness of the LOR

D. . . . because He is majestic and glorious

¹⁰⁴:¹ Bless the LORD, O my soul!

O LORD my God, You are very great:

You are clothed with honor and majesty,

² [You] Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment,

Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.

³ He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters,

Who makes the clouds His chariot,

Who walks on the wings of the wind,

⁴ Who makes His angels spirits,

His ministers a flame of fire.

⁹⁶:⁶ Honor and majesty are before Him;

Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.

⁷ Give [ascribe] to the LORD, O families of the peoples,

Give to the LORD glory and strength.

⁸ Give to the LORD the glory due His name;

Bring an offering, and come into His courts.

⁹ Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of [His] holiness!

Tremble before Him, all the earth.

¹⁴⁸:¹³ Let them praise the name of the LORD,

For His name alone is exalted;

His glory is above the earth and heaven.

II. Revere and submit to the LORD God Almighty

A. . . . because He is greater in glory and might than all the angelic host.

²⁹:¹ Give [ascribe] unto the LORD, O you mighty ones [you angels],

Give unto the LORD glory and strength.

² Give unto the LORD the glory due to His name;

Worship the LORD in the beauty of [His] holiness.

⁸⁹:⁵ And the heavens will praise Your wonders, O LORD;

Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the saints.

⁶ For who in the heavens can be compared to the LORD?

Who among the sons of the mighty [the angelic host]

can be likened to the LORD?

⁷ God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints,

And to be held in reverence by all those around Him.

⁸ O LORD God of hosts,

Who is mighty like You, O LORD?

Your faithfulness also surrounds You.

¹³ You have a mighty arm;

Strong is Your hand, and high is Your right hand.

B. . . . because He is omnipotent and sovereign over all mankind

⁷⁷:¹³ . . . Who is so great a God as our God?

¹⁴ You are the God who does wonders;

You have declared Your strength among the peoples.

⁶⁶:¹ Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!

² Sing out the honor of His name;

Make His praise glorious.

³ Say to God,"How awesome are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power

Your enemies shall submit themselves to You.

⁴ All the earth shall worship You and sing praises to You;

They shall sing praises to Your name."

⁵ Come and see the works of God; He is awesome in His doing toward the sons of men.

⁷ He rules by His power forever; His eyes observe the nations; Do not let the rebellious

exalt themselves.

⁸³:¹⁸ That they may know that You, whose name alone is the LORD,

Are the Most High over all the earth.

⁴⁶:¹⁰ "Be still, and know that I am God;

I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth!"

C. . . . because He is Master and Lord over all creation

²⁹:³ The voice of the LORD is over the waters;

The God of glory thunders;

The LORD is over many waters.

⁴ The voice