Knowing The Word in Psalm 8

How Majestic Is Your Name

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.

8 O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, 7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, 8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

9 O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Comments

Psalm 8 stands out as one of the favorites of many because of its great hymnic and Messianic qualities. It is a hymn of creation praise with its object being the Creator himself. The Genesis account of creation helped the Israelites recognize and praise God as the sole creator of the universe. The New Testament understands the glory of humankind in relation to what Jesus has done for us. The renewal of man that this psalm looks forward to is fulfilled in Jesus’ victory over death and the grave.

Prayer

We adore thee, O Christ, and we bless thee, because by thy cross thou hast redeemed the world.

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