Psalm – Chapter 8

(To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David)

1 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou perfected praise (*) because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

(*) This “praise” word, its root is “mouth”, and can be rendered into various meanings, including “strength”, so there are translations that rendered this phrase “ordained strength”. But Lord Jesus himself had quoted this verse in [01] Matthew 21:16 as “perfected praise”, so in this humble translator’s opinion, that would be the most accurate translation.

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels (*), and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

(*) The term translated as “angels” here is “God” or “gods” referring to angels. But perhaps “angels” would be most accurate, because Paul had quoted this verse in [19] Hebrew 2:7 as “angels”.

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!