The LORD’S Glory and Man’s Dignity.
For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
O LORD, our Lord,How majestic is Your name in all the earth,Who have 1adisplayed Your splendor above the heavens!Or setPs 57:5, 11; 113:4; 148:132 aFrom the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established 1bstrengthBecause of Your adversaries,To make cthe enemy and the revengeful cease.Or a bulwarkMatt 21:16; 1 Cor 1:27Ps 29:1; 118:14Ps 44:16
3 When I 1aconsider bYour heavens, the work of Your fingers,The cmoon and the stars, which You have 2ordained;Or seeOr appointed, fixedPs 111:2Ps 89:11; 144:5Ps 136:94 aWhat is man that You 1take thought of him,And the son of man that You care for him?Or remember himJob 7:17; Ps 144:3; Heb 2:6-85 Yet You have made him a alittle lower than 1God,And bYou crown him with cglory and majesty!Or the angels; Heb ElohimGen 1:26; Ps 82:6Ps 103:4Ps 21:56 You make him to arule over the works of Your hands;You have bput all things under his feet,Gen 1:26, 281 Cor 15:27; Eph 1:22; Heb 2:87 All sheep and oxen,And also the 1beasts of the field,Or animals8 The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 aO LORD, our Lord,How majestic is Your name in all the earth!Ps 8:1