8:8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea
and everything that moves through the currents 1 of the seas.
8:9 O Lord, our Lord, 2
how magnificent 3 is your reputation 4 throughout the earth! 5
1 tn Heb “paths.”
2 tn The plural form of the title emphasizes the
3 tn Or “awesome, majestic.”
4 tn Heb “name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.
5 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.