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Psalm 8
“O YHVH, our Master, how excellent is Your Name in all the earth,
You who set Your splendour above the heavens!
Out of the mouth of babes and infants You have founded strength,
Because of Your adversaries, To put an end to enemy and avenger.
For I see Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have established. What is man that You remember him?
And the son of man that You visit him?
Yet You have made him a little less than Elohim,
And have crowned him with esteem and splendour.
You made him rule over the works of Your hands;
You have put all under his feet,
All sheep and oxen,
And also the beasts of the field,
The birds of the heavens,
And the fish of the sea,
Passing through the paths of the seas.
O YHVH, our Master,
How excellent is Your Name in all the earth!”
Psalm 8 is well known, partly due to several songs that quote directly from it. One of these songs starts, "O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your Name in all the earth".
In the Hebrew, this line more accurately reads "O YHVH, our Lord (Master)". While some Bible versions capitalize the first LORD, to signify that this use of “LORD” is really supplemental for the use of the Name YHVH, the meaning can be therefore lost in translation: YHVH is our Lord, and how excellent is His Name in all the earth!
Psalm 8:2 begins with "out of the mouth of babes and infants You have founded strength."
Yeshua quotes from this verse in Matthew 21:16. The children at the Temple were crying out to Yeshua, saying "Hosanna to the Son of David!"
Matthew 21:16
“And said to Him, “Do You hear what these say?” And Yeshua said to them, “Yes, have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nurslings You have perfected praise’?”
Hosanna (or Hoshiah-Na) means, "save, please" and comes from Psalm 118.
By crying out “Hosanna” to Yeshua, they were asking to be delivered. By declaring Yeshua to be the Son of David, they were declaring that He was their Messiah. Yeshua accepts their praise and uses Psalm 8 to put the exclamation point on it, rebuking the priests and the scribes who were indignant.
Author, Jared Gragg
Date, June 3, 2025