Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Psalms 8:3
work. The Western Massorites (App-30), with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "works" (plural)
fingers. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
ordained. established. Hebrew. kun.
work. The Western Massorites (App-30), with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "works" (plural)
fingers. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
ordained. established. Hebrew. kun.
Verse Psalms 8:3. _WHEN I CONSIDER THY HEAVENS_] כי אראה _ki ereh; because I_ _will see_. He had often seen the heavens with astonishment, and he purposes to make them frequent subjects of contemplati...
WHEN I CONSIDER THY HEAVENS - When I contemplate or look upon. They are called his heavens because he made them - because he is the proprietor of them - perhaps because they are his abode. THE WORK OF...
Psalms 8 THE SON OF MAN: ALL THINGS PUT UNDER HIS FEET _ 1. A little lower than the angels; crowned with glory (Psalms 8:1)_ 2. All things put under Him (Psalms 8:6) 3. How excellent is Thy Name o...
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 and do...
PSALMS 8 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Jehovah's Majesty Exalted by means of Man's Dominion. ANALYSIS An Original Solo, Psalms 8:3-8: Adapted to Temple Worship by Prelude and Refrain, Psalms 8:1 a, b, and...
_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" - namel...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
WHEN I CONSIDER. — Literally, _see, scan._ ORDAINED. — Or, as in margin, _founded_ — _i.e., created, formed;_ but the English word aptly introduces the idea of _order_ in the _kosmos._ Comp.: — “Kno...
_[Psalms 8:4]_ כִּֽי ־אֶרְאֶ֣ה שָׁ֭מֶיךָ מַעֲשֵׂ֣י אֶצְבְּעֹתֶ֑יךָ...
Psalms 8:1 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 man,...
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. Th...
Praise. But why does the prophet take notice of this proof of Christ's being the Messias, while he passes over his curing the sick? &c. St. Chrysostom answers, because the other miracles had been perf...
The Psalmist is here lost in admiration. He contemplates the heavenly bodies, those bright luminaries the moon and the stars. He doth not notice the sun; probably it was night when this meditation on...
As the Hebrew particle כי, _ki, _has often the same meaning as _because _or _for, _and simply affirms a thing, both the Greek and the Latin fathers have generally read the fourth verse as if it were a...
We have now come to Psalms 8 which closes this unfolding of the condition of the remnant, and the counsels of God as to the rejected Anointed of Jehovah. What is said is still by the mouth of the now...
WHEN I CONSIDER THY HEAVENS,.... Where God dwells, and which he has made; the airy and starry heavens, which are to be seen with the bodily eye; and the heaven of heavens, which is to be beheld and co...
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; Ver. 3. _When I consider thy heavens_] And that men should be much in this consideration, both...
_When I consider thy heavens_ Thine by creation, as it follows; _the work of thy fingers_ Of _thy hands_, as it is expressed Psalms 102:25, a part being here put for the whole, and God's _hand_ and _f...
When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, productions of Jehovah's almighty power, THE MOON AND THE STARS, WHICH THOU HAST ORDAINED, all of them examples and proofs of the infinite greatne...
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 psa...
3-9 We are to consider the heavens, that man thus may be directed to set his affections on things above. What is man, so mean a creature, that he should be thus honoured! so sinful a creature, that h...
THY HEAVENS; thine by creation, as it follows. OF THY FINGERS. i.e. of thy hand, as it is expressed, PSALMS 102:25; a part being here put for the whole; God's _hand and finger_ being indifferently use...
Psalms 8:3 consider H7200 (H8799) heavens H8064 work H4639 fingers H676 moon H3394 stars H3556 ordained H3559 ...
‘When I consider the heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars which you have ordained, What is man ('enosh) that you are mindful of him? And the son of man (ben adam) that you visi...
Psalms 8:3 These words express a conviction which lies at the root of all natural as well as all revealed religion, a conviction which may be regarded as a distinctive feature, which separates that c...
Psalms 8:3 I. True greatness consists, not in weight and extension, but in intellectual power and moral worth. When the Psalmist looked up to the heavens, he was at first overwhelmed with a sense of h...
Psalms 8:3 The text is now to be used as the basis of the inquiry, What is the moral effect of studying great subjects? When we consider the heavens, four results are secured: I. We are impressed wit...
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. Out of the...
CONTENTS: Meditation on the majesty of God's works and the insignificance of man. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When we consider the majesty of God's wonderful works in the universe, we cannot...
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, cited this...
_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 the sp...
_When I consider Thy heavens._ CONSIDERING That is what people will not do. They are thoughtless, superficial, frivolous; they do not sit down and put things together and add them up, and ask the me...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 8:1. This hymn of praise helps the Lord’s people celebrate their glorious Creator, and their privileged place in his creation. With Genesis 1:1 as
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 w...
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 his glo...
Psa 8:1-9 is to the chief musician upon Gittith. Now Gittith means wine press, and so you have the thought of the harvest in the sense, actually, of judgment. The time of harvest has come. O LORD, ou...
Deuteronomy 4:19; Exodus 31:18; Exodus 8:19; Genesis 1:1; Genesis 1:16
The moon — Either the sun is included under this general title: or he omitted it, because he made this psalm by night. Ordained — Placed in that excellent and unalterable order, and directed to their...