For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by Dawud.
1YAHWEH, our Lord, how majestic is your Name in all the earth, Who has set your glory above the heavens!
2From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise,1 Because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
3When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which you have ordained; 4What is man, that you think of him? The son of man, that you care for him? 5For you have made him a little lower than the angels;2 You crowned him with glory and honour.
6You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things in subjection under his feet.3 7All sheep and oxen, Yes, and the animals of the field, 8The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, And whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9YAHWEH, our Lord, How majestic is your Name in all the earth!
- 8:2 Quoted in the Injil, Matthew 21:14-16, which says, “The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and ‘ISA healed them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying out in the temple and saying, “Praise God for IBN DAWUD!” they were indignant, and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” ‘ISA said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise?’” ↩︎
- 8:5 Hebrew: Elohim ↩︎
- 8:4-6 Quoted in the Injil, Hebrews 2:5-9, which says, “For he [God] did not subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels. But one has somewhere testified, saying, ‘What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him? For you have made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honour. You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things in subjection under his feet.’ For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we do not see all things subjected to him, yet. But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, ‘ISA, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honour, that by the grace of God he should taste death for everyone.”
Verse 8:6b only is quoted and explained in 1 Corinthians 15:22-28, which says, “For as in Adam all die, so also in AL-MASIH all will be made alive. But each in his own order: AL-MASIH the first fruits, then those who are AL-MASIH’s, at his coming. Then the End comes, when he [‘ISA] will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death. For, he ‘put all things in subjection under his feet.’ But when he says he ‘put all things in subjection,’ it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him. When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.” ↩︎