Psalm 8
How Majestic Is Your Name
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.[a] A Psalm of David. 1 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.
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?
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[b]
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.
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!
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
This is one of David's many psalms that proclaim the name of God. You always get a sense of David's excitement and just childish giddyness for how much he loves his God. The first verse can sum up this entire psalm, "O Lord, our lord! How majestic is Your name in all the earth!" And in verse 2, David says that even babies and infants cry out the name of the Lord. In the second part of the verse, God has established His strength to stand against the enemies of Christ.
Fro verse 3, he directs our attention to the heavens. In this context when he says "your heavens," he is referring to the stars and the sky. "When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place." David is admiring the creation that God has has created. Not just the creation, but the creativity of God himself. God is a creative god. His creativity can be seen in the smallest atom that makes up our complex bodies. We are a work of art, as is all of His creation.
David goes on to ask God "why did u make us because we are nothing without for you." But God did make us to have dominion over the things of this earth. God has given us His tools, the creature of this world. And we need to use these tools to bring Him honor and glory. This is kind of the bulk of the psalm, God is to be praised because He has blessed with a mere existence and a task to use His creation to glorify Him.
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