The LORD’S Glory and Mankind’s Dignity.
For the music director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
LORD, our Lord,How majestic is Your name in all the earth,You who have 1adisplayed Your splendor above the heavens!Lit putPs 57:5, 11; 113:4; 148:132 aFrom the mouths of infants and nursing babies You have established 1bstrengthBecause of Your enemies,To do away with cthe enemy and the revengeful.Or a strengthMatt 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 set in place;Or seePs 111:2Ps 89:11; 144:5Ps 136:94 aWhat is man that You think of him,And a son of man that You are concerned about him?Job 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!LXX angelsGen 1:26; Ps 82:6Ps 103:4Ps 21:56 You have him arule over the works of Your hands;You have bput everything under his feet,Gen 1:26, 281 Cor 15:27; Eph 1:22; Heb 2:87 All sheep and oxen,And also the animals of the field,8 The birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea,Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 aLORD, our Lord,How majestic is Your name in all the earth!Ps 8:1