_O LORD OUR LORD, HOW EXCELLENT IS THY NAME IN ALL THE EARTH! WHO HAST SET THY GLORY ABOVE THE HEAVENS._ Title. - UPON GITTITH. The Gittith was an instrument, or possibly a tune, invented in Gath, whence David brought it after his sojourn there with Achish (1 Samuel 27:2); or else it is derived from... [ Continue Reading ]
_OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES AND SUCKLINGS HAST THOU ORDAINED STRENGTH BECAUSE OF THINE ENEMIES, THAT THOU MIGHTEST STILL THE ENEMY AND THE AVENGER._ Sucklings - children until the third year, up to which the Hebrew women used to suckle their children (1 Samuel 1:22). Even tender children can, by the... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN I CONSIDER THY HEAVENS, THE WORK OF THY FINGERS, THE MOON AND THE STARS, WHICH THOU HAST ORDAINED;_ Thy heavens ... the moon and the stars. The sun is probably included in "thy heavens" - namely, as they appear by day, wherein the sun rules supreme. "The moon and the stars" in the second dens... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHAT IS MAN, THAT THOU ART MINDFUL OF HIM? AND THE SON OF MAN, THAT THOU VISITEST HIM?_ How condescending that the Creator of such glorious luminaries (Psalms 8:3) should stoop to make man [literally, frail man, _ 'ªNOWSH_ (H582)] a special object of His regard! THE SON OF Man 1:-1 :e., mortal m... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THOU HAST MADE HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS, AND HAST CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOUR._ Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels - Hebrew _ 'ELOHIYM_ (H430): the abstract idea of Godhead; not God Himself, because Scripture always puts an infinite distance between man and God;... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU MADEST HIM TO HAVE DOMINION OVER THE WORKS OF THY HANDS; THOU HAST PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET:_ Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands - alluding to Genesis 1:26; Genesis 1:28, "Let us make man in our image (answering to Psalms 8:5, Thou madest him but a little lower... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALL SHEEP AND OXEN, YEA, AND THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD;_ Sheep - `flocks,' margin; made up of sheep, goats, and such, smaller animals. BEASTS Hebre 'Behemoth' (Job 40:15): need here for the larger qnadr peds Compare Genesis 1:21 From Gen BEASTS - Hebrew, 'Behemoth' (Job 40:15): need here for the la... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE FOWL OF THE AIR, AND THE FISH OF THE SEA, AND WHATSOEVER PASSETH THROUGH THE PATHS OF THE SEAS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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), is in capital letters; where for _ 'ADONAY_ (H113), it is in small letters. This burst of praise in Psalms 8:1... [ Continue Reading ]