Psalms Chapter 8

From The Open Bible Project

For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David.

8:1 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!

8:2 From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

• (a) Though the wicked would hide God’s praises, yet the very babes are sufficient witnesses of the same.

8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

8:4 what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

• (b) It was sufficient for him to have set forth his glory by the heavens, though he had not come so low as to man who is but dust.

8:5 For you have made him a little lower than [7] God, [See Psalms Footnotes 7] and crowned him with glory and honor.

• (c) Concerning his first creation.

8:6 You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

8:7 All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,

• (d) By the temporal gifts of man’s creation, he is led to consider the benefits which he has by his regeneration through Christ.

8:8 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

8:9 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!