Holy Bible, The New Living Translation
Book of Psalms
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Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 8:1 GSB -> Study Notes on 8:1 JFB -> Commentary on 8:1 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 8:1 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 8:1 SRN -> Study Notes on 8:1 TOD -> Commentary on 8:1 TSK -> Commentary on 8:1 TSK -> Entry for 8:1 WEN -> Notes on 8:1 NTB -> Assurance; Glory; God; Music; Praise; Psalms; Readings, Select; Religion TTT -> Glory of God, The EBD -> Astronomy; Gittith SBD -> Musical instruments of the Hebrews TV -> Devotional using 8:1 TV -> Devotional using 8:1 TV -> Devotional using 8:1 8:1 - [In Context] For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument. F7 O LORD, our Lord, the majesty of your name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 8:2 GSB -> Study Notes on 8:2 JFB -> Commentary on 8:2 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 8:2 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 8:2 TOD -> Commentary on 8:2 TSK -> Commentary on 8:2 TSK -> Entry for 8:2 WEN -> Notes on 8:2 NTB -> Agency; Babes; Children; God; Praise; Preaching; Prophecy; Quotations And Allusions; Religion TTT -> Children; Missionaries, all Christians should be as; Praise 8:2 - [In Context] You have taught children and nursing infants to give you praise. F8 They silence your enemies who were seeking revenge.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 8:3 GSB -> Study Notes on 8:3 JFB -> Commentary on 8:3 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 8:3 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 8:3 TOD -> Commentary on 8:3 TSK -> Commentary on 8:3 TSK -> Entry for 8:3 WEN -> Notes on 8:3 NTB -> Astronomy; God; Heaven; Humility; Man; Moon; Power; Religion; Stars TTT -> Creation; Moon, The; Power of God, The; Stars, The EBD -> Moon 8:3 - [In Context] When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers – the moon and the stars you have set in place –
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 8:4 GSB -> Study Notes on 8:4 JFB -> Commentary on 8:4 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 8:4 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 8:4 TOD -> Commentary on 8:4 TSK -> Commentary on 8:4 TSK -> Entry for 8:4 WEN -> Notes on 8:4 NTB -> Condescension Of God; God; Humility; Man; Prophecy; Quotations And Allusions; Religion TTT -> Creation; Man EBD -> Man; Son of man 8:4 - [In Context] what are mortals that you should think of us, mere humans that you should care for us? F9
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 8:5 GSB -> Study Notes on 8:5 JFB -> Commentary on 8:5 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 8:5 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 8:5 SRN -> Study Notes on 8:5 TOD -> Commentary on 8:5 TSK -> Commentary on 8:5 TSK -> Entry for 8:5 WEN -> Notes on 8:5 NTB -> Angel (a spirit); Birds; Condescension Of God; God; Man; Prophecy; Quotations And Allusions; Religion TTT -> Man 8:5 - [In Context] For you made us only a little lower than God, F10 and you crowned us with glory and honor.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 8:6 GSB -> Study Notes on 8:6 JFB -> Commentary on 8:6 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 8:6 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 8:6 TOD -> Commentary on 8:6 TSK -> Commentary on 8:6 TSK -> Entry for 8:6 NTB -> Birds; Condescension Of God; God; Man; Prophecy; Quotations And Allusions; Religion TTT -> Man 8:6 - [In Context] You put us in charge of everything you made, giving us authority over all things –
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 8:7 GSB -> Study Notes on 8:7 JFB -> Commentary on 8:7 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 8:7 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 8:7 TOD -> Commentary on 8:7 TSK -> Commentary on 8:7 TSK -> Entry for 8:7 NTB -> Birds; God; Man; Religion TTT -> Beasts; Man 8:7 - [In Context] the sheep and the cattle and all the wild animals,
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 8:8 JFB -> Commentary on 8:8 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 8:8 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 8:8 TOD -> Commentary on 8:8 TSK -> Commentary on 8:8 TSK -> Entry for 8:8 NTB -> Birds; God; Man; Religion TTT -> Birds; Fishes; Man EBD -> Heaven 8:8 - [In Context] the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents.
Study Resource List GEB -> Study Notes on 8:9 JFB -> Commentary on 8:9 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 8:9 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 8:9 TOD -> Commentary on 8:9 TSK -> Commentary on 8:9 TSK -> Entry for 8:9 NTB -> God; Religion 8:9 - [In Context] O LORD, our Lord, the majesty of your name fills the earth!
FOOTNOTES: F7: Hebrew according to the gittith. F8: As in Greek version; Hebrew reads to show strength. F9: Hebrew what is man that you should think of him, the son of man that you should care for him? F10: Or a little lower than the angels; Hebrew reads Elohim.

Abbreviations Legend: GEB - Gill's Exposition; GSB - Geneva Study Bible; JFB - Jamieson, Fausset, Brown; MHC-COM - Matthew Henry Complete; MHC-CON - Matthew Henry Concise; SRN - Scofield Reference Notes; TOD - Treasury of David; TSK - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; WEN - Wesley's Explanatory Notes; NTB - Nave's Topical Bible; TSK - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; TTT - Torrey's Topical Textbook; EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary; SBD - Smith's Bible Dictionary; TV - Today's Verse; Copyright Statement - Holy Bible, The New Living Translation copyright © 1996 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved. For more information about the NLT, please click here.