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Key Verse

Psalms 8:9 BSB

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your 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 You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him? 5You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor. 6You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

    Quoted In: Hebrews 2:6-8

    6But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him? 7You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor 8and placed everything under his feet.” When God subjected all things to him, He left nothing outside of his control. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.

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  • Psalm 8:2 → Matthew 21:16

    Quoted From: Psalm 8:2

    From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

    Quoted In: Matthew 21:16

    “Do You hear what these children are saying?” they asked. “Yes,” Jesus answered. “Have you never read: ‘From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise’?”

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How Majestic Is Your Name!

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David.

1Oa LORD, our Lord,

how majestic is Your name in all the earth!

You have set Your glory

above the heavens.

2From the mouths of children and infants

You have ordained praiseb

on account of Your adversaries,

to silence the enemy and avenger.

3When I behold Your heavens,

the work of Your fingers,

the moon and the stars,

which You have set in place —

4what is man that You are mindful of him,

or the son of man that You care for him?

5You made him a little lower than the angels;c

You crowned him with glory and honor.

6You made him ruler of the works of Your hands;

You have placed everything under his feet:d

7all sheep and oxen,

and even the beasts of the field,

8the birds of the air and the fish of the sea,

all that swim the paths of the seas.

9O LORD, our Lord,

how majestic is Your name in all the earth!

  1. a 8:1 Gittith is probably a musical or liturgical term; here and in Psalms 81 and 84.
  2. b 8:2 Literally You have ordained strength; LXX You have prepared praise; cited in Matthew 21:16
  3. c 8:5 Or than God or than the heavenly beings; see also LXX.
  4. d 8:6 Cited in 1 Corinthians 15:27 and Hebrews 2:6–8
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