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1For the leader; “upon the gittith .” A psalm of David.[#: probably the title of the melody to which the Psalm was to be sung or a musical instrument.]
2O Lord , our Lord,
how awesome is your name through all the earth!
I will sing of your majesty above the heavens
3with the mouths of babes and infants.[#Mt 21:16; Wis 10:21.; #: the psalmist realizes that his attempts to praise such an awesome God are hopelessly inadequate and amount to little more than the sounds made by infants. : an allusion to lost myth telling how God built a fortress for himself in the heavens in primordial times in his battle with the powers of chaos. This “bulwark” is the firmament. : probably cosmic enemies. The primeval powers of watery chaos are often personified in poetic texts (Ps 74:13–14; 89:11; Jb 9:13; 26:12–13; Is 51:9).]
You have established a bulwark against your foes,
to silence enemy and avenger.
4When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and stars that you set in place—
5What is man that you are mindful of him,[#: the emphasis is on the fragility and mortality of human beings to whom God has given great dignity.; #Ps 144:3; Jb 7:17.]
and a son of man that you care for him?
6Yet you have made him little less than a god,[#: Hebrew ‘elohim , the ordinary word for “God” or “the gods” or members of the heavenly court. The Greek version translated ‘ elohim by “angel, messenger”; several ancient and modern versions so translate. The meaning seems to be that God created human beings almost at the level of the beings in the heavenly world. Heb 2:9, translating “for a little while,” finds the eminent fulfillment of this verse in Jesus Christ, who was humbled before being glorified, cf. also 1 Cor 15:27 where St. Paul applies to Christ the closing words of Ps 8:7.]
crowned him with glory and honor.
7You have given him rule over the works of your hands,[#8:7ff] Gn 1:26, 28; Wis 9:2; 1 Cor 15:27.]
put all things at his feet:
8All sheep and oxen,
even the beasts of the field,
9The birds of the air, the fish of the sea,
and whatever swims the paths of the seas.
10O Lord , our Lord,
how awesome is your name through all the earth!