Psalm 8

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above
the heavens. From the lips of children and infants You have ordained praise because of Your
enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. (1-2)
This psalm of David begins with a declaration that the almighty God is our Lord
The majestic Lord of heaven and earth is ours in that we belong to Him it is He who has
made us and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture (Psalm
100:3)
Gods name is majestic in all the earth for the creation of heaven and earth display His
glory
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands (Psalm
19:1)
The glory of God is the manifestation of God Himself, and His revelation is in all the earth
and above the heavens in other words, God reveals Himself in both heaven and earth, but
almighty God cannot be contained or limited to any realm
Even children and infants praise God with their natural dependence and unreserved trust, to
which Jesus alluded when He told the disciples who argued about their own greatness:
Unless you turn and become like little children, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven
(Mt 18:3)
Gods power is manifested in those who acknowledge weakness and profess their
dependence upon Him; as Paul proclaimed Gods given word to him: My grace is
sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness; for when I am weak, then I am
strong (II Cor 12:9)
This divine power through human weakness will silence the foe and avenger
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You
have set in place, what is man that You are mindful of him, the son of man that You care for
him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and
honor. (3-5)
David considers the contrast of Gods creation Your heavens, the work of Your fingers
comparing it to Gods creation of man and the care that He has for each individual He created
He asked a rhetorical question: what is man that You are mindful of him, the son of man that
you care for him? then answers the question with the honor God bestows on His creation
Even though man is created a little lower than the heavenly beings yet he is crowned with
glory and honor man is created in Gods image and given dominion of the earth (Gen
1:26)
The writer of Hebrews applies this passage to Jesus, teaching that He became lower than the
angels yet was crowned with glory and honor as a result of suffering and obedience (Heb
2:9)
Paul writes of the same truth when he said of Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not
consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made Himself nothing . . . He humbled
Himself by becoming obedient to death even death on a cross (Philippians 2:6-8)

You made him ruler over the works of Your hands; You put everything under his feet: all
flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that
swim the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! (69)
Mankind, Gods crowning creation, is made ruler of all God create
Though we did not create the world and its creatures, God entrusts us to care for His creation
Just as Adam and Eve had both privilege and responsibility as caretakers for the Garden of
Eden, we are to honor God not in our ownership of the world but in our stewardship of it
David ends with the same words with which he began: praise to the majesty of our Lord