Psalms 8:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Psalms 8:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 8:1
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Job 11:7
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
Psalms 104:24
O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
Deuteronomy 33:26
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 3-9)

David here goes on to magnify the honour of God by recounting the honours he has put upon man, especially the man Christ Jesus. The condescensions of the divine grace call for our praises as much as the elevations of the divine glory. How God has condescended in favour to man the psalmist here observes with wonder and thankfulness, and recommends it to our thoughts. See here, I. What it is that le…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. Appropriately, the writer closes this brief but pregnant and sublime song of praise with the terms of admiration with which it was opened.