Psalm 8

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Psalm 8 English Standard Version (ESV)

How Majestic Is Your Name

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.[a] A Psalm of David.

8 O Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2     Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
    to still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
    the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
    and the son of man that you care for him?

5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings[b]
    and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
    you have put all things under his feet,
7 all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

9 O Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 8:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
  2. Psalm 8:5 Or than God; Septuagint than the angels

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 8:1 : Ps. 81, title; 84, title
  2. Psalm 8:1 : Ps. 148:13; Isa. 12:4; [Ex. 34:5]
  3. Psalm 8:1 : Ps. 113:4
  4. Psalm 8:2 : Cited Matt. 21:16; [Matt. 11:25; 1 Cor. 1:27]
  5. Psalm 8:2 : Jer. 16:19
  6. Psalm 8:2 : Ps. 44:16
  7. Psalm 8:3 : [Ps. 111:2]
  8. Psalm 8:3 : Ex. 8:19; 31:18
  9. Psalm 8:3 : Gen. 1:16
  10. Psalm 8:4 : Cited Heb. 2:6-8; [Ps. 144:3; Job 7:17; 25:6]
  11. Psalm 8:4 : [Gen. 8:1]
  12. Psalm 8:4 : Ps. 80:17
  13. Psalm 8:4 : Ps. 65:9; Gen. 21:1; 50:24
  14. Psalm 8:5 : [Gen. 1:26]
  15. Psalm 8:5 : Ps. 21:5
  16. Psalm 8:6 : Gen. 1:26, 28
  17. Psalm 8:6 : Cited 1 Cor. 15:27; [Matt. 28:18]
English Standard Version (ESV)

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