Psalms 8:9

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
LORD	יְהוָ֥ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
Lord	אֲדֹנֵ֑ינוּ 'a.do.Nei.nu	H113	sovereign · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
excellent	אַדִּ֥יר 'a.Dir	H117	wide or (generally) large · adjective, masculine singular absolute
name	שִׁ֝מְךָ֗ Shim.Kha	H8034	an appellation · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
earth	הָאָֽרֶץ ha.'A.retz	H776	the earth (at large · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 8:1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Job 11:7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
Psalms 104:24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
Deuteronomy 33:26 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 8:3–end

David here goes on to magnify the honour of God by recounting the honours he has put upon man, especially the man Christ Jesus. The condescensions of the divine grace call for our praises as much as the elevations of the divine glory. How God has condescended in favour to man the psalmist here observes with wonder and thankfulness, and recommends it to our thoughts. See here, I. What it is that leads him to admire the condescending favour of God to man; it is his consideration of the lustre and influence of the heavenly bodies, which are within the view of sense (Psa 8:3): I consider thy heavens, and there, particularly, the moon and the stars. But why does he not take notice of the sun, whi…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 8:9

Appropriately, the writer closes this brief but pregnant and sublime song of praise with the terms of admiration with which it was opened. Next: Psalms Chapter 9

John Gill on Psalms 8:9

O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! The psalm ends with the same words with which it begins; which shows that the sense of this, with which the psalmist was affected, continued with him, and doubtless increased, after such a confirmation of it, by the instances he was led to take notice of. See Gill on Psalm 8:1.

John Calvin on Psalms 8:7–end

Psalm 8:7-9 7. All sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the fields; 8. The birds of the air, and, the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 9. O Jehovah, our Lord, how wonderful is thy name in all the earth! The preceding question, with respect to the extent of man's dominion over the works of God, seems not yet to be fully answered. If the prophet here declares, by way of exposition, to what extent God has put all things in subjection to us, this subjection, it seems, must be restricted to what contributes to the temporal comfort and convenience of man while he continues in this world. To this difficulty I answer, That the Psalmist does not intend in the…

Dictionary and topics

Astronomy — The Hebrews were devout students of the wonders of the starry firmanent (Amos 5:8; Ps. 19). In the Book of Job, which is the oldest book of the Bible in all probability, the constellations are…
Gittith — A stringed instrument of music. This word is found in the titles of Ps. 8, 81, 84. In these places the LXX. render the word by “on the wine-fats.” The Targum explains by “on the harp which David…
Music, Instrumental — Among instruments of music used by the Hebrews a principal place is given to stringed instruments. These were, (1.) The kinnor, the “harp.” (2.) The nebel, “a skin bottle,” rendered “psaltery.” (3.)…
Psalms, Book Of — The present Hebrew name of the book is Tehill’im, “Praises;” but in the actual superscriptions of the psalms the word Tehillah is applied only to one, (Psalms 145:1) ... which is indeed emphatically…
Religion · NATURAL — NATURAL

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 8:9

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 8:3–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 8:9

John Gill on Psalms 8:9

John Calvin on Psalms 8:7–end

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 8:9

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 8:3–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 8:9

John Gill on Psalms 8:9

John Calvin on Psalms 8:7–end

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 8:9–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 8:7-8

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 8:9