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Psalm 8
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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Headings from the Berean Standard Bible.
The full introduction to Psalms opens beside chapter 1, in the Tyndale commentary.
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To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.
1O
2Out of the
3When I
4What is
5For thou hast made him a
6Thou madest him to have
7All
8The
9O
Footnotes
How Majestic Is Your Name!
For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David.
1O LORD, our Lord,how majestic is Your name in all the earth!You have set Your gloryabove the heavens. 2From the mouths of children and infantsYou have ordained praisefootnote aon account of Your adversaries,to silence the enemy and avenger.
3When I behold Your heavens,the work of Your fingers,the moon and the stars,which You have set in place—
4what is man that You are mindful of him,or the son of man that You care for him? 5You made him a little lower than the angels;footnote bYou crowned him with glory and honor. 6You made him ruler of the works of Your hands;You have placed everything under his feet:footnote c 7all sheep and oxen,and even the beasts of the field, 8the birds of the air and the fish of the sea,all that swim the paths of the seas.
9O LORD, our Lord,how majestic is Your name in all the earth!
Footnotes
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