Psalms 8 WBT
Summary: A creation hymn bracketed by the refrain "O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!" (v. 1, 9), Psalm 8 marvels that the God who set the moon and stars in place is also mindful of humanity: "what is man that you are mindful of him?" (v. 4). It celebrates humanity's God-given dominion over sheep, oxen, birds, and fish, echoing the creation mandate of Genesis 1. The psalm is quoted in the New Testament (Hebrews 2) in connection with Christ's exaltation.
1To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thy enemies, 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 a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor.
6Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all [things] under his feet:
7All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;
8The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, [and whatever] passeth through the paths of the seas.
9O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth!
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