8:7 including all the sheep and cattle,
as well as the wild animals, 1
8:8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea
and everything that moves through the currents 2 of the seas.
8:9 O Lord, our Lord, 3
how magnificent 4 is your reputation 5 throughout the earth! 6
1 tn Heb “and also the beasts of the field.”
2 tn Heb “paths.”
3 tn The plural form of the title emphasizes the
4 tn Or “awesome, majestic.”
5 tn Heb “name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.
6 sn Using the poetic device of inclusio, the psalmist ends the psalm the way he began it. The concluding refrain is identical to v. 1.