How Majestic Is Your Name

Psalm 8

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. 1 A Psalm of David.

1
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your q name in all the earth!
You have set your r glory above the heavens.
2 s Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established t strength because of your foes,
to still u the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I v look at your heavens, the work of your w fingers,
the moon and the stars, x which you have set in place,
4 y what is man that you are z mindful of him,
and a the son of man that you b care for him?

5 Yet you have made him a little lower than c the heavenly beings 2
and crowned him with d glory and honor.
6 You have given him e dominion over the works of your hands;
f 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!

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 81:1
    Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
    Psalms 84:1
    How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts!
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 148:13
    Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven.
    Isaiah 12:4
    And you will say in that day: "Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted.
    Exodus 34:5
    The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 113:4
    The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!
  4. Cross References
    Matthew 21:16
    And they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, "'Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise'?
    Matthew 11:25
    At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children.
    1 Corinthians 1:27
    But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 16:19
    O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 44:16
    At the sound of the taunter and reviler, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 111:2
    Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them.
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 8:19
    Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
    Exodus 31:18
    And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
  9. Cross References
    Genesis 1:16
    And God made the two great lights - the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night - and the stars.
  10. Cross References
    Hebrews 2:6 - 8
    It has been testified somewhere, "What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care for him?
    Psalms 144:3
    O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?
    Job 7:17
    What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him.
    Job 25:6
    How much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!
  11. Cross References
    Genesis 8:1
    But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
  12. Cross References
    Psalms 80:17
    But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
  13. Cross References
    Psalms 65:9
    You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.
    Genesis 21:1
    The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised.
    Genesis 50:24
    And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
  14. Cross References
    Genesis 1:26
    Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
  15. Cross References
    Psalms 21:5
    His glory is great through your salvation; splendor and majesty you bestow on him.
  16. Cross References
    Genesis 1:26
    Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
    Genesis 1:28
    And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
  17. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 15:27
    For "God has put all things in subjection under his feet." But when it says, "all things are put in subjection," it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him.
    Matthew 28:18
    And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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