To the chief musician on Gittith, a psalm of David
8:Title Gittith was probably a musical term.⚜
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📚O LORD 📖, our Lord, how excellent is your
name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
above the heavens.
2 📚Out of the mouth of babes and
infants you have ordained strength
because of your enemies,
so that you may silence
the enemy and the avenger.
8:2 This was quoted by the Lord Jesus in Matt 21:16. The religious leaders of Israel became His enemies and opposed Him, but God gave enlightenment and a voice of praise to the children. See also Matt 11:25.⚜
3 📚When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have ordained,
4 📚What is man,
that you are mindful of him?
and the son of man,
that you visit him?
8:4 How tiny and insignificant is man when compared to the immensity of the universe (Isa 40:15-17, 22-24)! Yet how important he is in the plan of God, as the following verses make clear.⚜
5 📚For you have made him
a little lower 📖 than the angels,
and have crowned 📖 him
with glory and honour.
6 📚You caused him to have dominion
over the works of your hands.
You put all things under
his feet;
8:6 According to Heb 2:8 this has not yet taken place. Only in regard to the Lord Jesus is it fully true (1 Cor 15:27; Eph 1:22).⚜
7 📚All sheep and oxen, yes,
and the beasts of the field,
8 📚The birds of the air,
and the fish of the sea,
and whatever passes through
the paths of the seas.
8:7-8 On the whole, man has been a very poor ruler over the animal kingdom. He has been guilty of cruelty, greed, and ignorance. And he has often bowed down to worship those creatures which he was appointed by God to rule. There will be great and wonderful changes when the Lord Jesus comes the second time.⚜
9 📚O LORD our Lord,
how excellent is your
name in all the earth!
8:9 Happy are they who can say with David that the LORD, Jehovah, the one and only Lord of the universe, is their Lord. This is the only safety in the present, the only hope in the future.⚜