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Key Verse

Psalms 8:9 ASV

O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Outline

  • O Lord How Excellent Is Your Name (v1-2)
  • What Is Man That You Are Mindful Of Him (v3-4)
  • You Have Crowned Him With Glory And Honor (v5-8)
  • O Lord How Excellent Is Your Name (v9)

Context

  • Written by David
  • Written in Hebrew
  • Written 1040 B.C. – 970 B.C.
  • Passage type · Poetic
  • 9 verses · 180 words

Quoted In The New Testament

  • Psalm 8:4-6 → Hebrews 2:6-8

    Quoted From: Psalm 8:4-6

    4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor. 6Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:

    Quoted In: Hebrews 2:6-8

    6But one hath somewhere testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him? 7Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; Thou crownedst him with glory and honor, And didst set him over the works of thy hands: 8Thou didst put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he subjected all things unto him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to him.

    American Standard Version, 1901. Public domain.

  • Psalm 8:2 → Matthew 21:16

    Quoted From: Psalm 8:2

    Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

    Quoted In: Matthew 21:16

    and said unto him, Hearest thou what these are saying? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea: did ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

    American Standard Version, 1901. Public domain.

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For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

1O Jehovah, our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the earth,

Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens!

2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength,

Because of thine adversaries,

That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,

The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

4What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

5For thou hast made him but little lower than God,

And crownest him with glory and honor.

6Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;

Thou hast put all things under his feet:

7All sheep and oxen,

Yea, and the beasts of the field,

8The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,

Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

9O Jehovah, our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

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