Psalms 8

For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of David.

1 [a][b]LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.
2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?[c]
5 You have made them[d] a little lower than the angels[e]and crowned them[f] with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their[g] feet:
7 all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

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Cross References 19

  • 1. S 1 Chronicles 16:10
  • 2. S Exodus 15:11; Luke 2:9
  • 3. Psalms 57:5; Psalms 108:5; Psalms 113:4; Psalms 148:13; Habakkuk 3:3
  • 4. Matthew 21:16*
  • 5. Psalms 143:12; Psalms 44:16; 1 Corinthians 1:27
  • 6. S Genesis 15:5; S Deuteronomy 10:14; Psalms 89:11
  • 7. S Exodus 8:19; S 1 Chronicles 16:26; S 2 Chronicles 2:12; Psalms 102:25
  • 8. S Genesis 1:16; 1 Corinthians 15:41; Psalms 136:9
  • 9. S 1 Chronicles 29:14; Job 7:17; Psalms 144:3; Hebrews 2:6
  • 10. S Genesis 1:26
  • 11. Psalms 21:5; Psalms 103:4
  • 12. S Genesis 1:28
  • 13. S Job 10:3; Psalms 19:1; Psalms 102:25; Psalms 145:10; Isaiah 26:12; Isaiah 29:23; Isaiah 45:11; Hebrews 1:10
  • 14. Hebrews 2:6-8*
  • 15. S 1 Kings 5:3; 1 Corinthians 15:25,27*; Ephesians 1:22
  • 16. Genesis 13:5; Genesis 26:14
  • 17. S Genesis 2:19
  • 18. Genesis 1:26
  • 19. ver 1

Footnotes 7

  • [a]. In Hebrew texts 8:1-9 is numbered 8:2-10.
  • [b]. Title: Probably a musical term
  • [c]. Or "what is a human being that you are mindful of him," / "a son of man that you care for him?"
  • [d]. Or "him"
  • [e]. Or "than God"
  • [f]. Or "him"
  • [g]. Or "made him ruler . . . ;" / ". . . his"

Psalms 8 Commentaries

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