The Bible Study – Psalms 8 “How Majestic is Your Name”

Rev. Ingo Dutzmann of First Lutheran Church in Boston, MA.

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Psalms 8

For the director of music. According to gittith.[b] A psalm of David.

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

You have set your glory
in the heavens.
2 Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?[c]

5 You have made them[d] a little lower than the angels[e]
and crowned them[f] with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their[g] feet:
7 all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.

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

Footnotes:

Psalm 8:1 In Hebrew texts 8:1-9 is numbered 8:2-10.

Psalm 8:1 Title: Probably a musical term

Psalm 8:4 Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?

Psalm 8:5 Or him

Psalm 8:5 Or than God

Psalm 8:5 Or him

Psalm 8:6 Or made him ruler . . . ; / . . . his