Self-interpreting Bible
Psalms 8
God's glory is magnified by his works, and by his love to man.
0 To the chief Musician upon aGittith, A Psalm of David.
- a: Psalms 81 , Psalms 84 , 1 Samuel 17
1 O LORD our Lord, bhow excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
- b: Ex. 34:6 , Ex. 34:7 , De. 28:58 , Is. 12:4 , Is. 12:5 , Ps. 72:17 - 19 , Ps. 113:4 - 6 , Ps. 148:13 , Phi. 2:9 - 11
2 cOut of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou 1ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest dstill the enemy and the avenger.
- c: Mat. 21:16 , Mat. 11:25 , Mat. 19:14 , 1Co. 1:26 , 1Co. 1:27
- 1: Heb. founded.
- d: Ps. 44:16 , Ps. 46:10 , Re. 6:12 - 17 , Re. 19:11 - 21
3 When I econsider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
- e: Ps. 111:2 , Ps. 19:1 - 6 , Job 36:24 , Ge. 2:1
4 fWhat is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For gthou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
- g: Ge. 1:26 - 29 , Ge. 2:7 - 25 , He. 2:7 - 9 , 1Pe. 1:20 , 1Pe. 1:21 , Phi. 2:6 - 11 , Mat. 11:25
6 Thou hmadest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
- h: Ge. 1:26 , Ge. 1:28 , Mat. 11:27 , Mat. 28:18 , 1Co. 15:27 , Ep. 1:20 - 22 , 1Pe. 3:22 , He. 1:2 , Jn. 3:35 , Jn. 17:2
7 2All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
- 2: Heb. Flocks and oxen all of them.
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.