The Lord’s Glory and Mankind’s Dignity.
For the music director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
8 Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
You who have (A)displayed Your splendor above the heavens!
2 (B)From the mouths of infants and nursing babies You have established (C)strength
Because of Your enemies,
To do away with (D)the enemy and the revengeful.
3 When I (E)consider (F)Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The (G)moon and the stars, which You have set in place;
4 (H)What is man that You think of him,
And a son of man that You are concerned about him?
5 Yet You have made him a (I)little lower than God,
And (J)You crown him with (K)glory and majesty!
6 You have him (L)rule over the works of Your hands;
You have (M)put everything under his feet,
7 All sheep and oxen,
And also the animals of the field,
8 The birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 (N)Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth!
Footnotes
- Psalm 8:1
- Psalm 8:2
- Psalm 8:3
- Psalm 8:5
Cross references
- Psalm 8:1 : Ps 57:5, 11; 113:4; 148:13
- Psalm 8:2 : Matt 21:16; 1 Cor 1:27
- Psalm 8:2 : Ps 29:1; 118:14
- Psalm 8:2 : Ps 44:16
- Psalm 8:3 : Ps 111:2
- Psalm 8:3 : Ps 89:11; 144:5
- Psalm 8:3 : Ps 136:9
- Psalm 8:4 : Job 7:17; Ps 144:3; Heb 2:6-8
- Psalm 8:5 : Gen 1:26; Ps 82:6
- Psalm 8:5 : Ps 103:4
- Psalm 8:5 : Ps 21:5
- Psalm 8:6 : Gen 1:26, 28
- Psalm 8:6 : 1 Cor 15:27; Eph 1:22; Heb 2:8
- Psalm 8:9 : Ps 8:1
