Psalms 8:2-9

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.
6 Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:
7 Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, [whatever] passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

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Footnotes 8

  • [a]. Or 'founded strength;' same word as in Ps. 68.34; 96.6,7; 132.8.
  • [b]. Tzar, the 'adversary' of Christ, or 'oppressor' of the remnant, from within, as Ps. 3.1; 27.2,12.
  • [c]. Oyeb, external 'enemy,' as Ex. 15.9; 23.22; Num. 10.35.
  • [d]. Enosh, 'feeble,' 'mortal man,' man looked at as a race, in contrast with distinguished individuals: see Gen. 4.26; Ps. 144.3.
  • [e]. Adam.
  • [f]. Or 'regardest.'
  • [g]. Or 'some little.'
  • [h]. Elohim: see Ps. 97.7.
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