“ O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! ”
O Lord our Lord, how excellent ... - Repeating the sentiment with which the psalm opens, as now fully illustrated, or as its propriety is now seen. The intermediate thoughts are simply an illustr...
VIII. A Nature Psalm. Psalms 8:1 f. The majesty of God. In Matthew 2 defies the rudiments of Heb. grammar and all attempt at translation. Of many emendations the following is the most ingenious...
O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! O Lord our Lord - The psalmist concludes as he began. Jehovah, our prop and support! his name is excellent in all the earth. The name of...
O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Translate as (note) Psalms 8:1 , 'O Yahweh our Lord.' In the English version, the LORD, where it stands for YAHWEH ( H3068 ),...
Psalms 8:1-9 THE exclamation which begins and ends this psalm, enclosing it as a jewel in a setting, determines its theme as being neither the nightly heaven with all its stars, nor the dignity of...
This is a great song of worship. It opens and closes with the same words. These words enclose the psalm, and create its burden. The matters between are proofs of the opening and closing statements. T...
The Psalmist, after reciting the wonders of redemption in the person of him by whom all things are restored, makes a beautiful response to his own first exclamation of wonder and praise, and again ex...
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, con...
O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth! Ver. 9. O Lord our Lord, &c. ] Prius incipit Propheta mirari quam loqui, et desinit loqui non mirari. The psalmist endeth as he...
Condescension of God. 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast o...
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‘O YHWH, our lord, How excellent is your name in all the earth.' This repetition of Psalms 8:1 again summarises a main purpose of the Psalm, to give glory to Israel's God (and ours), and especial...
INTRODUCTION “This is a psalm of thanksgiving to God for the exaltation of man above all terrestrial creatures. It is quoted by the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews with reference to Christ; but...
8 : 1. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. They are very high, but thy glory is higher than the heavens. Psalms 8:2-4 ....
Psalms 8:1 . How excellent is thy name. See note on Proverbs 18:10 . Psalms 8:2 . Thou hast ordained strength. For some reason the LXX read αινον, praise. So our Saviour, it would seem, cit...
How excellent is Thy name in all the earth! David’s poetical sensitiveness In all probability this Psalm is the first, or at all events one of the very first, David ever wrote. It breathes th...
EXPOSITION Psalm VIII . is altogether a psalm of praise and thanksgiving. Its primary idea is the condescending love and goodness of God towards man. That God, who had made the heavens, and sot...
The Glory of Messiah's Name. To the chief musician, for liturgical performance, upon Gittith, a form of zither, named from the Philistine city of Gath, where the author had lived for some time. A...
Deuteronomy 33:26 ; Job 11:7 ; Psalms 104:24 ; Psalms 8:1