Three items of note form the background of the praise offered in vv5-14: the heavenly court, the worship of the Yahweh alone, and the description of creation. The lord was conceived as dwelling above the blue firmament with the sons of god (v6), or “heavenly beings” who constitute the divine court. Their function was to praise the lord (psalm 29) and to carry out his will. Here the incomparability of the lord is celebrated. None of these elohim-beings can match him. One should note that their divine nature poses no problem for the psalmist. The existence of divine beings is taken for granted. But there is only one Yahweh, absolute and superior to them all. This is pratical, not theoretical monotheism: a “mono-yahwism”, as it has been called. The lord’s superiority is rooted in his creative activity. This is portrayed as a conflict with the powers of chaos, represented by the “sea” and personified in rahab, an unruly monster of the deep. This conflict between the lord and chaos is another mode of describing his creative activity.