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Psalm 8

The TorahRooted Bible (TRB), translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek.

The majesty of Yahweh's name

1 Yahweh, our Adon, how majestic is Your name in all the earth, You who have set Your splendor above the heavens! 2 From the mouth of children and nursing infants You have established strength because of Your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place, 4 what is man, that You remember him, and the son of man, that You care for him? 5 Yet You have made him a little lower than Elohim, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You make him rule over the works of Your hands; 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 Yahweh, our Adon, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!

Notes

  • 8:1 Title: "Gittith" (haggittit), also in the titles of Psalms 81 and 84, is of uncertain meaning; on "For the choir director" see the note at 4:1. It may name an instrument or a melody from Gath ("Gittite"), or it may be connected with gat, "winepress," as the ancient Greek translation read it ("for the winepresses"), which would suggest a song of the grape harvest.
  • 8:2 "Strength" is oz. When the children in the temple cried out praise to Yeshua and the leaders objected, He answered with this verse in the words of the ancient Greek translation, which reads "You have prepared praise" (Matthew 21:16): the strength Yahweh founds in the mouths of little ones is their praise, and it is enough to silence His enemies.
  • 8:5 "Than Elohim" is me'elohim. The word can mean God Himself, the Creator who set man just beneath Himself as ruler of His works (Genesis 1:26-28), and the TRB keeps "Elohim"; but elohim can also mean the heavenly beings of Yahweh's court (compare "the sons of Elohim," Job 1:6), and the ancient Greek translation has "a little lower than the angels," where "a little" can also mean "for a little while." Hebrews 2:6-8 quotes verses 4-6 in that Greek form and reads them of Yeshua, made for a little while lower than the angels and now crowned with glory and honor, the true man under whose feet all things are put (Hebrews 2:9; 1 Corinthians 15:27).

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