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Psalms 8:1

Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name! Your praise reaches as high as the heavens,

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In The King James Version

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

In Context

2from the mouths of children and infants. You have built a fortress against your enemies, to silence the foe and the rebel.

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Cross References

Psalms 8:9Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name!

Psalms 57:5Be exalted, God, o’er the heavens, and your glory o’er all the earth.

Psalms 63:1O God, my God, you, you do I seek: my heart thirsts for you, my body faints for you in a parched and waterless land.

Psalms 72:17May his name be blessed forever, may his fame endure as the sun. May all nations envy his blessedness, all tribes of the earth call him happy.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 8:1

This psalm is a solemn meditation on, and admiration of, the glory and greatness of God, of which we are all concerned to think highly and honourably. It begins and ends with the same acknowledgment of the transcendent excellency of God's name. It is proposed for proof ( ver. 1 ) that God's name is excellent in all the earth, and then it is repeated as proved (with a "quod erat demonstrandum"—which was to be demonstrated) in the last verse . For the proof of God's glory the psalmist gives instances of his goodness… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

King James VersionBíblia Portuguesa MundialLuther Bibel (Deutsch)Bible Louis Segond (Français)Библия (Русский)新标点和合本성경 (한국어)الكتاب المقدس باللغة العربية، فان دايكBibbia Diodati (Italiano)Kinh Thánh (Tiếng Việt)Biblia Cornilescu (Română)Polish Biblia Gdanska (1881)Statenvertaling (Nederlands)

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