The final petition that God be exalted above the heavens repeats the earlier prayer for divine exaltation, creating a kind of frame around the psalm and establishing this as the ultimate goal and desire. The addition of "over all the earth" emphasizes the completeness and universality of the desired divine sovereignty: God's rule should be acknowledged everywhere and by all creation. The placement of this petition at the close suggests that the entire psalm is oriented toward this ultimate prayer: that God's supremacy be made manifest. This verse closes the psalm with the reassertion of its fundamental theological orientation toward the exaltation and manifestation of God's sovereignty.

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